Due to my own investigations, supported by about half a dozen of trials which were motivated by corresponding hints given by honorable BEA-'veterans' (whom I absolutely believe, that this possibility may have existed in ancient times), a free access to the BEA has vanished nowadays due to my experience.
Understandable from a commercial aspect, however annoying from a potential BEA-fan's POV, who just wants to try out, whether this forum is the right place for him/her.
If I'm wrong, I'm more than willing to apologize and claim the opposite! But please don't just claim "I never paid for the forum access" but post a recipe how to become a member for free right now, preferably supported by some screenshots etc.
Another point which I found completely irritating is the field "Display Name" on page 1 of the registration form, which is commented: "this is the name that other users will see". WRONG! Whatever you'll type in there will vanish in some computer-nirvana.
Instead you will be given the name which you type into the field "Coose a Username (this is a private name, only you will be able to see it)". Again WRONG! The "Username" is the name, everybody will see on your posts as in my case "wolpertinger".
After filling in your password and confirming the Captcha-procedure you are provided with a link. Clicking on this link will forward you to page 2 of the registration form, which mainly handles the payment issues.
Be warned: if you choose an e-mail address e.g. from a user-domain, you might run into troubles to get your credit card accepted, even if this e-mail address was used to send you the registration confirmation link (see above).
So you better take one of your 'common' e-mail addresses e.g.
[email protected],
[email protected] etc. The same becomes true if the BEA-Name differs from the name on the credit card (e.g. if you want donate a BEA-membership to a friend).
I've experienced quite a couple of additional hurdles, but don't want to extend this post lengthily.
So if you should have an additional question, feel free to post it here. I'll be happy to answer if I know.
However due to my knowledge, my general answer to this thread's subject is: NO
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