I thought something was up when the NY Times emailed and offered a special 50% off rate if I would not cancel my home delivery subscription. Continue your subscription and you’ll keep your free, unlimited digital access, a benefit available only for our home delivery subscribers. You’ll receive unlimited access to NYTimes.com on any device, full access to our smartphone and iPad® apps, plus you can now share your unlimited access with a family member.†
First off, I haven't had a subscription to the NY Times since...well, even when I lived in Manhattan I didn't have a subscription. So then I figured it was a scam, or perhaps their email list was compromised. But there was no stern warning, or suggestion that I click on a link and provide my credit card info to a guy in a hut in Nigeria.
Turns out I, and 7,999,999 other folks had received the message by mistake. It was supposed to go to just 300 people. Oops.
But thanks for the offer anyway.
Coming from the same newspaper which once told Dr. Robert Goddard that controlled spaceflight was impossible, why am I not surprised? Always quick to admit its own mistakes, The New York Times promptly retracted its unsigned editorial 49 years later, the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
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