Invisible wrote:
> I don't own a webcam?

Whoosh!

>> That's what a free junk email address is for.
> 
> Except some of them actually check for this.

So, they don't let you use any free email account? Sucks to be them.

> And you still need to go to 
> all the bother of setting up that email address in the first place. 

Once.

> often when you "register" you must also provide a real street address, 
> telephone number, inside leg measurement and a few other items. 

I usually use my own info, with the individual numbers rearranged at the 
end. :-)

> It's worse with open-source, since it usually starts out as a one-person 
> hobby project. Ther person who wrote it knows what it does and why 
> that's useful, but they forget to explain this part on their website!

Even when it's not a one person hobby project, how many times have you 
gotten a source file with 50 lines of copyright disclaimers, revision 
control stuff and etc at the top, and not a single line saying something 
like "this file implements the regex parser"?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Yes, we're traveling together,
   but to different destinations.

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