I may be tempted to do the same with my RH8 system. I keep getting emails from Red Hat with errata alerts, but given my "demo user" (i.e. freeloader) status, "up2date" gets rejected due to the "heavy load" on the RH server. It could be other freeloaders are downloading RH9 now.
It'd hard to justify being indignant, but that doesn't stop me. :)