[Sigia-l] Registration-only sites

[Sulleiro, Andres]

I've noticed a steady increase in registration-only sites for the last few years. I get so much spam anyway that at this point I don't care who has my email address anymore. Thank god for server/client spam software.

Does anybody know of any research done on how many people actually give their real information?

My own personal behavior varies. If it's purely for web browsing (news sites) I may give a fake identity, if it's something that later on I may get in the physical world (Amazon-like stuff), then I give them my real info.

--Andrés




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> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] 
> On Behalf Of Listera
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:50 PM
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Registration-only sites
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> I'm sure you've been reading reports about the recent 
> proliferation of sites
> (especially news-oriented ones) that now require registration:
> 
> What, Me Register? 
> <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64392,00.html>
> 
> We've actually had this for a while at the dawn the web, then 
> people saw the
> futility of it all and opened up. I guess it's coming back.
> 
> My question is, if you worked on a site that went from open 
> to registration,
> what reasons did the management give to justify/require it?
> 
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> Ziya
> 
> Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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