[thelist] web site registration

[Matt]

What kind of content are you offering? People will register if the content is
premium or in some way unique, but otherwise they're just as likely to go
elsewhere. I don't mind doing it for the New York Times, for instance, but
wouldn't do it to check the weather at my local NBC TV Station affiliate site.
Maybe that's a bad example, but you get the point.

Bruce Lawson wrote:

> my boss is talking about making people register to read the content on our
> web site.
>
> I believe that most users *hate* giving an email address (and maybe a
> password too) when  they surf to a site. I know that I never follow links to
> the NY Times (say) because it requires me to register in order to go beyond
> the Front Page, whereas the LA Times doesn't.
>
> Am I alone in not wishing to give out my email address 10 times a day - or
> should i just accept it as an inevitable development of the web?
>
> Bruce Lawson
>
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