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Aside, shouldn't you be parsimonious with subscriber links for LWN and not post them publicly? I haven't had a LWN subscription in a while, but I really like their business model. I would not have posted this link myself.

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No, the subscriber links are for exactly this kind of situation. They are to allow you to link to articles when it's relevant to a discussion, as long as you don't abuse them by doing something like posting a regular feed of all LWN articles or submitting every single one to Reddit/HN.

Jonathan Corbet, editor of LWN, frequently posts his own subscriber links to LWN articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=corbet

And has explicitly endorsed posting occasional links to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688938

Ah, I thought that might be the case. I wasn't sure. Thanks!

Thanks for this comment. I have often wondered about this, and I'm really glad to discover that it's above board.

Reasonable question (and I don't think you should be downvoted for it), but no, LWN editors (including Jonathan Corbet) have explicitly said that they're very happy to see LWN subscriber links posted to social networking sites and discussion sites. The main thing they don't want to see is someone systematically posting links for every single subscriber-only article.

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