Newsgroups: alt.radio.networks.npr
From: haoyuep@aol.com (Dan Hoey)
Date: 02 Jun 2001 15:37:46 GMT
Subject: What has happened to npr.org?

[Also e-mailed to yourt...@npr.org and ombuds...@npr.org]

I just now went looking to replay an article I heard on Weekend Edition,
because I thought it was so good I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed
any details.

To my amazement, the npr.org web page has been removed.  Instead
there are a bunch of selections about what some web designer thinks I
might be interested in, but lacks any kind of index to help me find what
I'm looking for.  The only thing that looked like it would give me a
choice about what I wanted to hear was a link to http://audible.com/npr/.

So I clicked on it and it started up a new browser process (who said
I wanted a new browser process?) and said my browser was incapable of
Javascript (a lie, my browser will do Javascript just fine if I don't
disable it by choice) and suggested that if I have an account I should
log in (I'm never going to get an account; I refuse to have my web
browsing monitored.)

So far, I haven't gotten very close to finding the archives of Weekend
Edition, and my opinion of your new Web design is wonderment at why
you broke it.  Did audible.com give you a lot of money for spying
rights on your customer base?

You have turned a valuable web resource into a corporate scam trap.
I hope there are enough of us who can tell the difference that
you are forced to put the old one back.  A public apology for the
inconvenience wouldn't be out of place, either, provided it occurs
after you remove the inconvenience.

Dan Hoey
Washington DC
The E is silent; my name rhymes with Boy.