The NYT marketed this to staff. But you don't even have to have stepped foot on the campus in the past decadeto get Times Select.
I just signed up with my alumnus account. I feel dirty.
You're not the last one: if I don't see a move quite early in it's public release, then it's better for me to wait for PPV; I hate mid-to-late-buzz time.
2: That worked. I was wondering whether it would. I know people who went to or worked for Wesleyan who still have plain old wesleyan.edu accounts, and I think that Stanford gives people actual e-mail addresses. My alumna account is just a forwarding address.
I meant to say in comment 4, "Huh, that worked for you? I'm not sure that mine will."
I have a feeling that the Times will know how to filter out my post.university.edu acoount.
this worked for me, too, with my northwestern address though i finished my masters several months ago. thanks!
That was easy- I have 2 .edu alumni forwarding addresses (one undergrad, one grad.) Seems like you sort of need to lie, saying that you're staff or student when alumni is not an option, and I put my graduation date well into the future so my access doesn't expire.
5- Post.harvard.edu? Works for me.
From Atrios:
But the Times said it doesn't believe most alumni will cheat. "It's an honor system," said Vivian Schiller, senior VP-general manager, NYTimes.com. "And we're assuming that the alumni of this nation's colleges and universities have a thorough enough education in ethics to keep them honest."
Deontic, consequentialist, or emotive ethics? Runaway trolley ethics? Brain-in-vat ethics?
My own feeling is that a single mouse orgasm would be more than enough to compensate for a whole universe of fraudulent Times Select registrations.
It's not even a matter of alumni. I could forward my confirmation email around to anyone, since the only info it embodies is my email address.
Well damn. I just signed up with my current university email account, and it sent a message to that account saying that they couldn't verify my address. Wtf?
But that would be Dishonest, and since you have a .edu address it means you would never do such a thing.
Here, try mine. HINT: this school is located in California.