<quote>you know, what I would really like in a bot, though I'm sure there are reasons this doesn't exist. is a bot that you can send a NYTimes URL to and it will spit back [or email you? does this break some rule?] the text of the article, no banners, no headlines, no cloying logins etc. I have been dealing with a particularly zealous fan who has been trying to tell me that linking to NYT articles is Bad Form since not everyone has a login, even though I do offer my own login to them ... So, I'm thinking I should learn perl in order to be able to do this.</quote> And that was all it took.