In a word, yes. Boing Boing reader Drew says:
There have been a lot of previous Boing Boing posts about how nytimes.com's pay-for-archive approach is a bad strategy. Well, they've made matters worse by changing their email-an-article policy. Before, you could choose to email the entire body of an article (I often sent myself articles so I could re-read and reference them later), but now the email-an-article function only sends links to articles. Those articles are eventually moved into the archives, so they're really making you pay and cutting themselves off even more.