----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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....