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Dear bj21:

Thank you for free subscription to your newsletter. Always enjoy same. How do you get all this info.? Find same authoritative, informative, and often, entertaining.

However, several recent "e-mailings" have taken me to sites, that, in order to get sought-after info., require me to register with real name, address, etc.

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1. Safe?

2. Should I?

3. Example: Most recent newsletter title something like "CC's get advantage at 21" or something of that nature...clicking on the "link" takes me to a Memphis site wherein they REQUIRE me to log-on with personal data, in order to read said info.

4. If safe, FINE....if NOT, could bj21 consider posting this info.?

Thanks,

Phantom007.

Do the usual and set up an email account somewhere remote. Supply that with whatever name you want... That will work for most cases. I, like you, don't like to subscribe to _anything_. I already get swamped with SPAM. If I used half the viagra ads I get, I could stand in Alabama and pee in Arkansas. You can set up these bogus email accounts, subscribe, then don't go back. They will be canned (the email account) after 30 days of no use generally, and any spam they collect will get returned after some modest space limit has been exceeded.

I'd be less worried about someone discovering who I am, than I am increasing my current email overload. I am averaging about 300-400 emails per _day_, with maybe 20 being real stuff...

However, several recent "e-mailings" have taken me to sites, that, in order to get sought-after info., require me to register with real name, address, etc.

More and more newspapers are requiring registation to be able to read what was once freely available. Presumably they are doing it for market research, but undoubtedly also to compile mailing lists.
When I use a newspaper in the BJ21.com newsletter that requires registration, it is because I was unable to quickly find the story in a paper that does not require it. If I have a choice, I'll use the paper with no registration requirement.

Example: Most recent newsletter title something like "CC's get advantage at 21" or something of that nature...clicking on the "link" takes me to a Memphis site wherein they REQUIRE me to log-on with personal data, in order to read said info.

The Memphis site is the Commercial Appeal, which is a large newspaper in Memphis.

The sites we link to in the newsletter are legitimate newspapers and similar websites. What many people do when asked to register is to use a "throwaway" email address, such as a hotmail address, and "throwaway" personal information as well. If you use throwaway information with the correct demographic and zip code information, they will get the correct info they need for market research, but not personal info you may not want to give out. I never read any emails that come to the "throwaway" email address I use.

When I don't want to give personal information in a compulsory registration situation I go to www.bugmenot.com and use their suggestions. It has worked well so far.