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Quick LWN update
Time flies... it is now six months since LWN began the subscription
experiment. How do we know? Many of you signed up for six-month
subscriptions, and those are now expiring. If you are one of those, it's
time to be thinking about renewing; remember that prepaid subscriptions of
ten months or longer get a 10% discount.
LWN's subscribers are the only thing keeping this site on the net; we thank you for your support. (Log in to post comments)
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 8:39 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] Once more I would like to thank you for providing what I consider the best way to keep up with what is happening in the Linux community!Keep up the good work!
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 10:17 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (subscriber, #24) [Link] Just added a 10-month block to my sub...One suggestion/request: I rely on your security stuff for my work - to be honest, largely to look good in front of my collegues by always being on top of new alerts :-) Any chance of a new mailing list for when new vunerabilities are added to the database (or even daily security-only)? I realise that one mail for every vunerability would be a busy list, and I don't know if that would be a problem for you - it would be great for me. I don't have the bandwidth for something like bugtraq, and I'm explictly not interested in vendor security alerts, just in new vunerabilities...
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 11:19 UTC (Thu) by mwh (subscriber, #582) [Link] Hmm, lwn by mail...Thinking about it, I'd love to read LWN via nntp. LWN articles would be news articles and you could even have comments as threaded followups. This would of course increase the fraction of my day spent staring at emacs, a quantity which seems to have no upper bound...
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 18:01 UTC (Thu) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link] Excellent idea, I too would love to be able to read LWN through NNTP. This could be a bonus service to subscribers.(Emacs/Gnus specific: If this doesn't happen for some reason maybe an nnlwn backend could be created. An LWN backend for w3m's nnshimbun might be another way to do it but I haven't installed nnshimbun yet so I am not sure what exactly its capabilities are)
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 28, 2003 1:54 UTC (Fri) by lotzmana (subscriber, #3052) [Link] Having NNTP access will keep alive the conversation that usually follows on article posts.At the moment you read an article, read the comments, reply or you yourself put a new comment, but this is usually done once per article and only rarely the page is revisited to check how a conversation thread evolves. With a news reader I can be current to all the conversations. To me it seems that NNTP is the natural approach to this problem. The best of both worlds would be to have the web interface backed by NNTP and vise-versa, anything posted through NNTP will appear on the web page as well. NNTP backend could be a good feature to attract subscribers.
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 30, 2003 16:25 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > Having NNTP access will keep alive the conversation that usually follows on> article posts. > At the moment you read an article, read the comments, reply or you yourself Right. However, it doesn't mean the NNTP interface is needed; just the current one lacks usability. As a very minimum, I'd like to get an email notification whenever somebody replies to my post (or probably another one in its thread). This optional feature may be enabled by checking an appropriate box next to the "Publish comment" button. And/or, I'd like to be able to mark as "hot" an article - which would result, again, in the email notification whenever a comment to it is posted.
Quick LWN update Posted Aug 28, 2003 12:08 UTC (Thu) by mwh (subscriber, #582) [Link] Oh, the irony: I've just read the followups to my comment for the first time.Noone will ever read this, of course.
Quick LWN update Posted Feb 15, 2008 18:43 UTC (Fri) by biged (subscriber, #50106) [Link] It could happen.
Vulnerabiliity mailing list Posted Mar 27, 2003 12:28 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Any chance of a new mailing list for when new vunerabilities are added to the database (or even daily security-only)?The mailing list would be easy to implement; the harder part would be getting the vulnerability entries up sooner. We tend to batch them, rather than creating them immediately. I'll think about how we could change things to make that work.
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 15:13 UTC (Thu) by lamikr (guest, #2289) [Link] Would it be possible to get one more feature to the LWN.I would like to be able to open printable lwn big article with all comments viewed. Mika
Big page with comments Posted Mar 27, 2003 15:18 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Now that would be a truly big page. I'll put it on the list; can't make any promises about when I can actually implement it, though.
Quick LWN update Posted Mar 27, 2003 16:57 UTC (Thu) by dvainsencher (guest, #4143) [Link] Hmm, this made me think - I got a 12 month subscription, which is long enough I'll probably forget to renew when the time comes.But not if you send me an email reminder a couple of months before the time comes... (obviously, this is not urgent :-)) Daniel
Email reminders Posted Mar 27, 2003 17:01 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] The site does currently send out a note when the subscription actually expires - that actually gives you a few weeks to fix things up. I've pondered some sort of earlier notice, but I really don't want to send out too much email...For what it's worth, an amazing amount of the subscription mail we do send bounces; a lot of people don't give us working email addresses when they set up their accounts.
Email reminders Posted Mar 28, 2003 11:17 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] > [A] lot of people don't give us working email> addresses when they set up their accounts. That's no surprise, given how much such info is unfortunately abused in most cases. I'd like to commend LWN for being a pleasant exception to that.. I did use a valid address, and it's stayed pleasantly spam-free. (I did at one point have to change it, but that was due to a mailing list I was on being harvested, unfortunately.)
Re: Quick LWN update Posted Apr 28, 2003 3:42 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] > ...remember that prepaid subscriptions of ten months> or longer get a 10% discount. Hmm... you might want to mention this in the FAQ or on the subscription renewal page. I don't see this information anywhere except in the archives.
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