To restate my point, if you place that little extra bit of privacy as more important than getting the content on your priority scale, more power to you. You are a market force that they have to deal with, one of many. Just don’t get on your high horse about a business that doesn’t cater to your preferred content-delivery business model.

Sorry!

I have problems with spelling in general. And believe me, I can sympathize with the hassles that come with an unusual name.

Yours,

Bradley.

Yes, we should go back to the old days of fishing, maybe pay $30 a pound for some salmon (because of course price has no place in an economic supply and demand graph) and that family fisherman can get back into business, bringing in ten fish a day so that he can support his family on $200 a week.

Note to people with absolutely no economic sense: economic efficiency is an improtant part of keeping Americans employed, if it were not for our productivity we would send 90% of our jobs overseas, but we don’t, cause the guy making $1 an hour produces 1/50 of what the American getting $20 a hour produces.

People who do not understand basic economics should go back to writing about flowers.

The Post is offering you a ton of information for free and you have a problem giving them your email address? They make no money advertising to you, what do they get $5 per thousand ads displayed, and you look at 50 pages all year. The information is for demographic purposes and similar things, plus the potential benefit that you might agree to receive their newsletter or end up buying something that they offer.

My company does the same thing and we offer our users content which has cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to create and stream. The least someone who gets something for FREE can do is offer an email address and maybe one day that person buys a product through my company instead of someone elses and he repays me without having to dig into his own pocket as he was going to buy the product anyway.

As for your claims about sites not doing it, go to ESPN.com, that has become one of the crappiest sites on the internet. I stopped visiting it until I installed a pop up blocker, it was unusable. Now they know nothing about me and make no money on their high priced ads from me.

Just out of curiousity, if the Post offered to give you free content and come over and clean your house too would that be enough to give them your email address?

Radley Balko has better things to do than debunk this “craptacular” case against efficiency. Believe it or not, I don’t. Since the issue in question is efficiency, it may be helpful to begin by defining it. The late Paul Heyne,…

Oh, yes. Let’s go back.

I pick titles on the principle that someone will like what I like, and I have time to prescribe for a customer who needs a book but doesn’t know which one.

And to top it all off, she’d rather “prescribe” titles to her customers than make every effort to supply people with the books they might actually want.

What a twit.

Thanks for linking to that, Radley. I’m going to feel very superior for the rest of the day.

I’ll note, by the way, that the majority of respectable news merchants require no such registration, yet they have evidenced no ill as a result.

Not your fault, certainly, Radley. Just a peccadillo of mine.