----Original Message----
>From: Russ Allbery
>Sent: 31 May 2005 04:51
> It's not the request for the e-mail address. It's that it's phrased as a
> login screen and a button to create an account. I know that I definitely
> pause and consider before I create an account at a web site. There are
> many on-line newspapers that I refuse to read articles from, for example,
> because I don't want to create an account. That creates a piece of
> authorization out there that I have to record a password for and that I'm
> to some degree responsible for.
Whenever I come across one of those interfaces, I test it to see if it'll
let me create an account called 'guest' with password 'guest'. (I believe
in keeping the old net.traditions alive!) If it wants an email address, I
use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
cheers,
DaveK
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