Subscriber Links [LWN.net]

Subscriber Links

Posted Sep 30, 2005 20:52 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Subscriber Links by GreyWizard
Parent article: An LWN status update

"Do you trust us enough to let us try?"

Seems like maybe I'm going to have to. I'm pondering implementation details now. I'm thinking about allowing magic links for individual files, but not the weekly edition summary pages. Privacy policy implications are worth a thought. One could do cool things like track how many new subscribers resulted from the links sent by each subscriber, but I'm leaning against keeping that much information. I may reserve the right to interpose a "try a trial subscription" page occasionally.

Anyway, something will probably happen here. Just a matter of finding some hacking time...

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Subscriber Links

Posted Oct 1, 2005 4:22 UTC (Sat) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]

Yes, it would be terrific if you could do this, and I don't think anybody would be offended if the forwarded page contained a "please consider subscribing" insert or even an interstitial page with a blurb about LWN. Often when I've wanted to forward a subscriber-only LWN article it has been for folks who work with Linux daily but do not follow the open-source world, and they likely have never even heard of LWN before. These sorts of referrals might help your subscriber base grow further into the market of hackers who only care about "Linux the product" and not "Linux the community".