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[C. Murata]

From: JQ Johnson <jqj at darkwing.uoregon.edu>

...
>  An ordinary link -- essentially just
>a citation -- even if it points to the middle of a site (hence
bypassing a
>front door advertisement or something) seems completely legal, though
not
>necessarily good etiquette.
...

This is an interesting, if not disturbing, statement.  On our
library's web page we provide a number of links to tools or resources
located within another web site, bypassing the front door, mainly
because the tool or resource is considered to be valuable enough to
warrant its own link.  A prime example of this is the link to the
Fortune 500 list < http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/ >.
We maintain a separate link to the main Fortune magazine home page,
but since the 500 list has value separate from the magazine it gets
its own link.  I have never understood this practice to be a breech of
etiquette, in fact I had taken this to be common practice among
subject bibliographers/webliographers.

After re-reading your entire message, I am now convinced that I don't
understand the flow of the paragraph that contained the excerpted
statement.  Are you addressing specifically the use of frames or are
you referring to the entire practice of pointing to subsidiary web
pages?

Cm
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Corey Murata
Business Administration Computer-Based Services Librarian
University of Washington Foster Business Library
Box 353224
Seattle, WA 98195
murata at u.washington.edu
(206) 543-4360