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Subject: 
Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Feb 2007 07:49:15 GMT
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For full disclosure, I should note that clicking on
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070123.wxarar23/BNStory/National/home
results in reload and a final URL of
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20070123.wxarar23%2FBNStory%2FNational%2Fhome&ord=1170834346329&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

But it's still asking for payment to read the article.


Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote:
> 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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  Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
 
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 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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