Now we must register and sign in to listen to

[ikojo]

Air America on the Internet? What's with that? I listen to some Pacifica stuff and am not required to divulge any info about myself. Granted they don't ask much but some may not like it.

[truebrit71]

1. I don't mind..they don't require any info that you can't "fudge"..

..besides..I'm a proud liberal and I don't mind anyone knowing about it....Fuck the Junta..

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

2. Commercial radio

They need stats for advertisers. That's why they ask for age and zip code. That's the way it works, pretty harmless, less info than Yahoo or hotmail wants, and for the same reason - marketing. AA accepted my web e-mail address, which is less than some message boards out there demand.

[Renew Deal]

3. At least they have a sense of humor

How did you hear about Air America Radio? (check all that apply)

Television Radio Newspaper Magazine Billboard or poster Email Fox News

I don't mind registering and I just did.

[HFishbine]

4. I've been waiting for a password

for about six days now.

[ikojo]

5. I got my code immediately. I assigned myself

a password.

I understand why we must register but also understand there are some who are warry of doing so.

They ask for the same type of stuff the Washington Post asks before you are taken to an article.

Also, I WANT them to know there are people in St Louis whose only option of hearing Air America is on the Internet.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. It doesn't bother me....I use hotmail address for that stuff.

Word to everyone....keep a hotmail address JUST for online registration and never give you good email address online and magically you hardly get any spam in the address you really care about.

As for the hotmail, log on about once a week and dump the shit.

[Wickerman]

7. I have no problem with them knowing my Zip Code

If there are enough of us, then we might get an actual FM station that carries the show. I would assume that, and the need to demonstrate real users to advertisers is the function of the registration.

[xultar]

8. Come on! Support Air America we've been so critical that we don't

have a Liberal voice on the RW Radio.

Now we do

and what happens,

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Sign up, giv'em the opportunity to get some advertisers so that they can make some $$$$$$$$$$$$ and you can continue to complain for another 100 years!

[IronLionZion]

14. exactly, they need info about their listeners

so they can get advertisers

[Love Bug]

9. I don't mind registering, but

I did it several days ago but never got the "code." Now, I just tried registering again and timed out. We have a T1 line here, so it's not like I'm on dialup. I'll keep trying, but this is a bit frustrating.

[supernova]

10. Same problem here

It won't let me sign up again.

Luckily WLIB works just fine.

[Cursive_Knives512]

11. Hehehe, "Top 6 Reasons to join us:" from AA

1. John Ashcroft will know where to find you.
2. All our annoying pop-up ads are invisible.
3. Because they shut down the Dennis Kucinich dating chat room.
4. Our spam is vegetarian.
5. You like making up passwords.
6. You were banned from the Fox News website for having your own opinion.

[proud patriot]

12. I just got an internal server error , when trying to sign up

:-(

[IronLionZion]

13. catch the local streams if you don't want to register

Portland is popular around DU

[nclib]

15. I just clicked the Listen Live button and

it didn't ask me to register or anything. It started playing right away.

[bif]

16. I didn't have to register.

Hmmm...

[dweller]

17. me either

just opened my audio player (real player) and under file was the previous connection, brought it up and it worked perfectly.

and tried going thru every link on the web and du but only got server errors...is that still happening (server errors) for most folks?

dp

[Don_G]

18. Other Web Sites Were Complaining Too

I suppose Air America took the server down until it could be fixed.

One site reported that the AM station at 620 KHz was running Windows Media Player and didn't require registration.