Hello Werner,
* Werner Koch [2017-11-10 21:36 +0100]:
publishing a private subscriber only URL to a _public_ mailing list is not for what LWN generate them as a favor to their subscribers.
That is what I thought before, too. In the past I always had a reminder a week later and then distributed the normal link. When I talked with Jake Edge (LWN) about that some months ago, he encouraged me to send subscriber links to public mailing lists, news aggregators, social media, etc. He told me that helps them. When you see an article through the subscriber link, there is more advertisement to become a subscriber. It seems that until now that works quite well for them.
As I highly appreciate LWN I therefore changed my behaviour.
Best Regards, Matthias