I couldn’t resist completing the link cycle. So here goes:
Netahoy’s Blog
One more fact about TNT – Really stupid security policies b by Ravikiran [via S Anand ]

Now my turn:

One more fact about TNT: Boom Bam Crash for India Today’s TNT
TNT is dead [via S Anand ]

We thank you for your support to TheNewspaperToday, India’s first online newspaper. Unfortunately, due to unavoidable circumstances, TNT has become an unviable business proposition.
So, India Today Group Online has decided to merge its news operations with the group’s mother site, the online version of India Today, from November 1, 2002.

Excuse me, but how on earth did TNT become an “unviable business proposition”? India Today is a newsmagazine. They have a TV channel (Aaj Tak) under their command. Certainly they don’t lack for news sources. When they say that the business model didn’t work out, are they saying that they couldn’t get enough suckers people to sign up to defray the cost of just running the site – the hardware, bandwidth and some 2-3 guys to administer the thing?
Possible, but I have another idea. They must have figured out that no one visits their India Today site either and the reason they don’t is that it is updated only once a week. (And is hidden behind a 4-digit number.) So how do you get people to go there? Have a continuously updated news feed for free of course. Those who come to read the news might just stay and pay for the articles. But of course, you can’t give away for free in one site what you charge 499 bucks a year for in another.