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« on: May 18, 2008, 10:12:22 pm »

Beginning Monday the Tulsaworld.com site goes back to requiring registration.

That wouldnt be so bad if giving them your email address wasnt consent to them AND THEIR PARTNERS sending you spam.

If you go to
https://www.tulsaworld.com/mm/support/newsletterprofile.aspx
it looks like you could opt-out of the spam you just opted-into, but the settings dont take.

So once they have your email address, you will be seeing promotions, offers, coupons and contest come-ons from the Tulsa World and whoever they decide to sell your email address to.
...and no apparent way to opt-out.

This is what disposable addresses are for, so be forewarned.
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barry44
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2008, 01:04:34 pm »

The question is will the Tulsa Beacon and the other news competitor's take enough business "traffic" from the Tulsa World that they will have to go back to 100% free no registration.  What will the market demand?
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 01:32:19 pm »

Man, spam or not, I have to say that after one day the new registration procedure has put a severe dent in the dumb stuff on what has been the crappiest comment thread on the whole wide interweb.
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2008, 01:39:23 pm »

No kidding. I occasionally peruse the comments section, but I am always turned off by what appears to be the same person posting under 50 different aliases...
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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2008, 02:02:49 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by barry44

The question is will the Tulsa Beacon and the other news competitor's take enough business "traffic" from the Tulsa World that they will have to go back to 100% free no registration.  What will the market demand?



The Beacon is a competitor?

Seriously.

That's like saying Harden's is a McDonalds competitor.. similar product but complete different business level/market.
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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 02:25:25 pm »

Yeah, the spam thing is annoying, but now the comment threads aren't the most depressing thing I have ever read anymore.  It really was just a few a-holes pissing in everyone else's oatmeal.
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