Linking to URLs on the web (was Useful Training pages...)

[Aaron Bradley]

>> Are you saying that you just pointed to them and they complained?!
>> But that's what URLs are for! That's like the author of a book insisting
>> on being notified everytime anyone includes a citation to his/her book
>> in their bibliography.
>
>I think it's different in that the number of people who cite an author 
>has little impact on the author's ability to conduct his/her daily 
>business, while the number of people who link to a site can have a great 
>impact on the server it resides upon.

You can't somehow hope that people won't find your site, or that they
won't link to it if you do.  If you want to control who comes to your site
you have to to it through access control (restricting the information to
users from a specific domain) or password protection.  When
you've made information available to the public via the Internet you
can't complain when the public accesses it -- or when pages are
written linking to that information.

Aaron Bradley
abradley at bowest.awinc.com
Peace & Security WWW Server
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca