[WEB4LIB] RE: Deep Linking....ok, but be careful...

[Edward Wigg]

At 05:57 AM 8/2/2000 -0700, "GRAY, PAUL" <PAUL.GRAY at TCCD.NET> wrote:
>I take respectful issue here - 
>A web site is the property of it's owner and they have every right to
>restrict access to any part of it they like -  Just as much as brick&mortar
>business owner has a right to say - 
>'If you want to shop here - come in through the front door.'  

It seems to me more like saying, "all bibliographic references must only be
to the table of contents, you may not link to a specific page." The desire
to control how people use your web site is understandable, but it is not
necessarily a good thing for us all to always give in and agree to
commercial concerns desires to force us to have their view of the web
whether or not it is in everyone else's best interests. 

Absent intent to deceive or defraud by linkers, enforcing control over how
people link to you by legal means is also control over _whether_ people can
link to you ("if you are not on the list of approved linkers you MUST link
to this dead-end, misleading page") -- if you can enforce it against
Tickets.com why not against HateWatch? 

Edward