Much of the NY Times disappears behind a financial firewall next Monday. News, reviews and editorials will still be available...op-eds and such, not so much.

I remember when the NYT issued linkrot protection via RSS. I don't know if you noticed, but links from RSS feeds (and Google, btw) didn't expiring the way links from the web site did. I don't know if suddenly all the old links will break now or not.

On the other hand, the archives look fat, juicy and ready for picking. I like the idea of being able to go back as far as 1851. Do you have any idea how many misrepresentations of history can be dismembered with such a resource? 

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