Longer term would be good, but not auto-renew.

Longer term would be good, but not auto-renew.

Posted Feb 28, 2003 8:35 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
Parent article: LWN Update

I don't like reoccuring payments that I don't directly and individually authorize. I
never have. When I first subscribed, I didn't have much left in my budget for the
month, and purposefully chose a two month only "starving" membership in
ordered to force me to reconsider in two months.

Two months later, my budget was a bit better, and I subscribed for a full year at
the standard price. Unfortunately, somehow, despite my clicking the correct
options at each page, it got in as 12 monthly deductions @ $5 each, which I did
NOT intend or want, instead of a single one for $60, which was my object.

Anyway, I'd love to be able to change that to a single deduction for now 10 or 11
months, and avoid the reoccuring monthly fees. Any way to do that? I'd leave a
contact address but am afraid of the address harvesters, so won't. However, a
reply here with some sort of instructions would suffice.

...

Also, I've requested this before. Please either alter your comment display code to
obey the background color customization preferences, or provide a separate
option for that. I prefer light text on dark background, it doesn't glare like dark on
light does, but am stuck with having to chose an inbetween shade for text, since
the same text preference is displayed on black when my background preferences
are obeyed, but on white in the comments, where they are not.

Since I've been a paying customer for some time, it'd be /real/ /nice/! Pretty
please?

(I've been experimenting with FilterProxy, which would solve the problem, but the
release version depends on a now outdated htmlMason perl module, and while
the CVS version of FilterProxy is supposed to correct that, I haven't tried it yet.
Thus, I am not yet running a dynamically rewriting personal proxy yet, which would
solve the problem from my end. However, I can't imagine I'm the only one
experiencing this issue, so solving it from the LWN end would be a good thing,
regardless.)

Duncan

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