New York Times Log-In

[Jason Biggers]

The first thing I'd wonder before doing this, "Is it legal?"

The diclaimer/use of the NYT site states you're responsible for all who
use.  Are you ready for this?

If you do find it's O.K. and you're ready to handle any problems that may
arise, the NYT login allows the user id and password to be stored on the
machine that is used to access their site.  This eliminates your need for
any programmming or coding.  The only drawback is you would have to reveal
the login and password initially for users to enter and this would include
users who visit your pages via the 'net.  Of course if you don't allow the
general public access to your pages, then you/staff could manually visit
the site on every machine and have the info stored w/o revealing what your
login and password is.

Hope this helps.  I'd be interested in hearing other comments about this
as well.

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On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, andrew mutch wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to try and create an automatic log-in
> to the New York Times and NYT Book Review Web Sites.  You need to enter
> an ID and password.  I tried a method similar to that created by Bill
> Drew to enter OCLC's FirstSearch, without luck.  I checked the archives
> but didn't find anything there.  Is anyone using HTML code to do this or
> have any suggestions?  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Northville District Library
> Northville, MI
>