NYT Opinion page is now free to the public again.

[madfloridian]

Heck, I paid my yearly subscription a month ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1190181971-r1kDXQKkTceVLq6D75gjKg

[madfloridian]

1. Here's the columnists page.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/

They can put David Brooks and Maureen Down back under the firewall IMHO

[SeattleVet]

2. You'll get a pro-rated refund, and some little 'extras' for being a subscriber

See http://www.nytimes.com/membercenter/faq/timesselect.html#tendsqa3 for details.

[ljm2002]

3. I noticed that...

...and I must say congratulations to Salon, who (several years ago) devised the system that the NYT now appears to be using: make people look at an ad, then let them into your darned site.

[aquart]

4. I keep Salon as my home page, to make sure I see those ads.

[ljm2002]

5. ???

Not sure what your point is. If you're saying the ads are bad, well yes it's a bit annoying. But businesses have to make revenue from somewhere, and Salon was the first to figure out a method that allowed people to read their content free while still managing to get enough revenue to survive. I thought it was a creative solution to their problem, and I don't mind a short ad -- I understand what the tradeoff is.

[aquart]

6. No.

I'm saying I make sure I see those ads at least once a day as my way of supporting Salon. That's why Salon is my home page.

[ljm2002]

7. Cool! n/t