Re:Free registration..some implications (Score 4, Interesting)

"Actually, free reg requires a valid email id. It thus filters most bogus registrations."

I don't find that to be true. Maybe you need to save the random login page onto a local computer, or maybe you need to block referrers with a firewall, but the random login works well for me, for viewing pages:

www.majcher.com/nytview.html

Use it frequently and often!

Currently I see "Welcome, paohjjkmtpfd."

At Washingtonpost.com, they only want gender, year of birth, Zip or Country. Pick most randomly, but always use 1984 for birth year.

"Secondly, news sites are planning to go the 'pay' way in about a couple of years."

More and more archives are already going pay per view.