I keep seeing (on Slashdot and elsewhere) citations to web sites that are "free, but registration required". Whether one really ought to allow citations to web sites that have this restriction is debatable ... after all, wasn't the idea of the web to be the free sharing of information?
No matter, that's not what I'm flaming about right now. The thing is, we need an acronym for this little phrase. I'm tired of seeing the various paraphrasings for it, as are everbody else, viz., its occasional abbreviation to "yadda yadda" ...
So here's the proposal. The phrase has to include something about access restrictions, and something about the fact that you have to surrender some kind of personal information to get past them. So I hereby suggest:
Personal Information To Access, or PITA.
Oh? You say that the acronym PITA is overloaded?
Gee. I hadn't noticed. What a shame.