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It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

Re:Subscription Question

[akedia]

If you pay by Paypal they only can see your e-mail. Since you're not paying for a product that has to be delivered to a residence Paypal doesn't include your address in the transaction. It's a part of Paypal's privacy guidelines for payment of services.

Re:Subscription Question

[I8TheWorm]

Yeah, but PayPal makes it publicly known [paypal.com] that they are quick to turn over personal info to agencies, even without a search warrant... not to mention companies that "help them with marketing to banks.

Re:yeah, but...

[The Creator]

Just spray the pile with deoderant every now and then.

Re:Sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!

Mozilla + Adblock will take care of that. I was thinking of subscribing to Slashdot until I read what you get for your money. It really isn't worth it to see a story a couple of minutes early. Perhaps if it was more like TotalFark (where I ended up spending my money instead) then I'd think about it. Let subscribers see the submission queue. There's gotta be plenty of cool stuff that gets submitted that can't make it to the front page.