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Check my account name against the author of the article :) I appreciate your concern. I do occasionally post a subscriber link in a place like HN or reddit wi
by corbet 15y ago
Check my account name against the author of the article :)
I appreciate your concern. I do occasionally post a subscriber link in a place like HN or reddit with the idea of sharing some useful news and making people aware of what we do. So you shouldn't be worrying about me abusing the LWN subscriber link mechanism (which I implemented in the first place); instead, you should worry about my shameless and transparent marketing efforts :)
- amackera 15y agoThanks for sharing, that was an informative article! Well done.
- sounds 15y agoCould you please comment on the appropriateness of other subscribers sharing a link like this? Within certain bounds - glibc being a good example - the general interest in the article might justify its widespread use. I would hazard a guess that for the majority of articles, LWN would prefer subscriber links be kept relatively "out of public circulation." Thanks!
- cube13 15y agoKeep in mind that the content stays behind the paywall for 1 week before non-subscribers can access it. So unless a paid subscriber is posting links to every single article, I don't think it's that much of an issue for LWN. So given that it's really only subscribers-only for about 24 hours more(the original article was posted on March 28th, I don't think that LWN cares all that much.
- dredmorbius 15y agoThat's why the share links where created. When I share subscriber-only LWN content (which I do occasionally), I specifically call out the quality of the content and the fact that it's a subscription site. One of the few I actually do pay money to.
- wickedchicken 15y ago> you should worry about my shameless and transparent marketing efforts :) Which totally just worked on me, by the way.