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Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:39:56 GMT
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Dave,

I access your original link, and I get:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Arar to stay on watch list, U.S. says

PAUL KORING AND JEFF SALLOT

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
WASHINGTON, OTTAWA — Maher Arar should remain on the security watch list
barring him from the United States, the Bush administration says in a
letter released yesterday that bluntly rejects pleas from senior
Canadian cabinet ministers. The letter, written last week, marks the
conclusion of a Canadian-requested review by U.S.

The full text of this article has 591 words.

To continue reading this article, you will need to *purchase this article*.
----------------------------------------------------------------

And it then shows various payment methods.

Sure looks like a pay site to me.

Even if it weren't a pay site, you have to sign up to read, and that's
almost as annoying.


David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl wrote:
> > Dave,
> > 
> > Please don't waste my time (and other) posting links to a site where you
> > have to PAY to read the news.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I'd never knowingly link to a site that requires paying--I've never done so
> before and I still haven't--I don't have to pay for that site, so I can't figure
> out why you have to.
> 
> 
> > I'm sure you could have found the same basic info in a free link to post
> > here.
> 
> I found the free info and posted it.  You know me--I'm a proponent of keeping
> things as cheap (or free) as possible.  The tone of your post is confrontational
> and I, for one, don't appreciate it.
> 
> 
> 
> > And just in case you try to say "it doesn't cost much in money or time",
> > I've heard that before, and it doesn't wash.  If I paid or took the time
> > to join all the "free" sites to read the news, I couldn't afford the
> > money to buy, or the time to build, with Lego.
> 
> Wouldn't do it.  NEver have and would never do so.  Hey Tom, remember me--Dave?
> Wanna turn down the bullying?  I don't know why it prompted you to pay, but it
> certainly didn't prompt me.
> 
> > 
> > David Koudys wrote:
> > 
> > > And if you leave the US justice system to sort things out regarding this 'war on
> > > terrah', they deport Canadians to Syria
> > > 
> > > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070123.wxarar23/BNStory/National/home

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For full disclosure, I should note that clicking on (URL) results in reload and a final URL of (URL) it's still asking for payment to read the article. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Tom, I'd never knowingly link to a site that requires paying--I've never done so before and I still haven't--I don't have to pay for that site, so I can't figure out why you have to. (...) I found the free info and posted it. You know me--I'm (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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