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Turned Away By Free Registration

I saw something on Slashdot that I'm interested in. It contains a link to an Interview which when followed greeted me with this:

Guess what I did?

  • Spend five minutes registering?
  • Tried the web default "username/password" literal pair?
  • Closed the tab and moved on to the next tab?

I have come to believe that websites that want you to go through a free registeration process secretly don't want you to enter their site.

Had there not been a free registration speed bump, I might have lingered on for a few more minutes, maybe even bookmarked the page, or, better still, throw it into my del.icio.us mix.

But apparently I'm not the kind of reader they want.

Whatever!