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Article comments
1 - Jim Carruthers
I don't mind registering for sites which actually provide some customizable use which I read at least once a week (nytimes.com for example, or guardian.co.uk).
Where I find bugmenot most useful is to read one-off articles linked from aggregator sites, such as Romensko, TVbarn, Metafilter, etc. where the chances of me coming back to the site again are very low. More and more of the paper chains in the States are making registration across the board, so registering with dozens of sites to read one article is just a waste of my time.
And thanks to bugmenot, I no longer pretend to live in LA, since in the early days, newspaper registrations only accepted ZIP codes, and the only one I know is 90210, and I live at 742 Evergreen Terrace.