Yup, definitely not cool. Here's the NY Times copyright notice: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html Basically, you need the copyright holder's OK to reproduce in any medium. In the case of the "email this article" link, (if I recall correctly) it only provides a link back to the original article via email. As for those pesky newspaper logins, I keep a couple of throw away email accounts (Yahoo, hotmail, etc.) to sign up for such things. A recovering technical writer, Loran On Mar 11, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: > hmmm - so even though i provided the article, fully credited and > intact, it's uncool? that's sort of odd, i think, especially since > they provide an "email this article" feature...but i agree, better > safe than sorry, for list moms! > > the main reason i posted it was because i knew most of our members > wouldn't be able to figure out how to view it otherwise, because > NYT requires a basic sign-in to occur. > > -- peter