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> From:         Paula Edmiston[SMTP:edmiston@CS.UNCA.EDU]
>
> > On Tue, 4 May 1999, Georgiana VanSyckle wrote:
> >
> > > I have had a rather hot debate over whether the web is
> > linear or nonlinear in its organization.
>
>
> I wish the web could remain non-linear but recently I've been
> caught up in a debate over deep linking. With deep links one can
> link to a page that contains relevant information. But lately I'm
> running across instances in which (usually for commercial
> purposes) owners of sites don't want to allow a specific page to
> be linked.
>
Hi, Paula:

This is not Unlike the MSFT Sidewalk/Ticketmaster controversy ... Sidewalk
was linking "deep" into Ticketmaster site to take readers/viewers "straight"
to relevant concert [performance, could have been theatre, etc.]
information. Ticketmaster took issue with this practice, because it removed
all those 'eyeballs' from pages that would have shown Ticketmaster
advertising. [this is my memory of the case, there may have been additional
issues]

The only way owners of sites can "prohibit" a deep page to be linked is by
wrapping it in a frameset. I will usually then look for another source of
the information, because if I"m searching for content for my audience, I
don't want to force them through hoops to get there.


Kathy