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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> I am not grateful to institutions that are annoying.

They are not annoying. They don't come banging on your door.
They are cheerfully offering a free service, and want you to
answer a half-dozen easy questions, once, for access. It seems
profoundly ungrateful to cavil at this.

I see this so many times - there are always people who feel
that the provider of a free service is in some way obligated
to satisfy all demands from its users. Come to think of it,
this puts us squarely back on topic, doesn't it?

> Certainly any institution that tries to put a cookie on my
 > machine gets my disrespect.

They don't "try". On their login page, you are offered the
option of doing this. Good grief, what is it with some people?