A personal plea re paywalls

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Old Hob
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A personal plea re paywalls

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I have a Times subscription and currently there is an article that has attracted the funniest responses I have ever read. I was laughing out loud. It invites me to share it but the recipients say it is stuck behind a paywall. I know there is a poster(s) who regularly used to unlock the wall (there was a heading of "archive"). I would be very grateful if that poster would contact me to explain how it is done.
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Old Hob wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 10:22 am I have a Times subscription and currently there is an article that has attracted the funniest responses I have ever read. I was laughing out loud. It invites me to share it but the recipients say it is stuck behind a paywall. I know there is a poster(s) who regularly used to unlock the wall (there was a heading of "archive"). I would be very grateful if that poster would contact me to explain how it is done.
https://archive.ph/

If you go to this site here, if you have access to a paywall free article you can post the link in the top red box

If you want to find if someone has archived a page use the bottom blue box and if there's an archived paste the link in and see if it's in there
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Thank you TFS. I'll give it a go.
Just for info the article concerned stone balls shot at Kenilworth Castle during the second Baron's war in 1266. The stones were described as "varying in weight from that of a cabbage to a giant panda." The comments that followed on asked whether these were metric or imperial pandas, and how far they were shot in relation to London buses or Nelson's columns, and where was the reference to Olympic swimming pools and size of area relative to Wales or the Isle of Wight...
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Thanks again TFS, I can find the archived page which will be useful in future for rugby articles but, sadly, it does not copy the comments.
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Happy to help
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