[WEB4LIB] Re: Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source

[Sidey, Carolyne L]

Just say you are not from the US. It does not ask for any more info.

 


Carolyne Sidey 
Manager, XRCC Library 
Xerox Research Centre of Canada 

csidey at crt.xerox.com


-----Original Message-----
From: WimV [mailto:wim.vogel at kb.nl] 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:45 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source

Morbus Iff wrote:

> >That article might be very really interesting, however I was sorry to 
> >find another site, syracuse.com, that wants to know my zip code, well 
> >maybe, but my year of birth and sex, just to read an article. I don't 
> >care what
>anyone >says about their privacy policies, I prefer not giving out more 
>information
>
>Yup. I hear ya. If they're gonna waste my time with privacy questions, 
>I'm gonna waste their time by inputing false data. I'm a female from 
>zipcode 11111 (why bother accepting zipcodes if you're not gonna check
>integrity?) who is 50 or so years old. Excelsior!
>
>Anyways, I pasted it below for you.
>

You can access this information, without giving any personal information, if
you diguise yourself as Googlebot http://www.google.com/bot.html

The webbrowser Firefox has an extension callled: "User Agent Switcher". 
With that extension you can diguise yourself as Googlebot and have free
access.
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/useragentswitcher

There is also a way to do this if you use Internet Explorer, although I
personally have no experience with this solution.
Read this: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php?id=799

greetings,

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    Wim Vogel
    E-mail : wim.vogel at kb.nl
    Tel.   : +31 70 3140 615
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