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"Webmasters who object to having others link to their sites should
re-evaluate whether they want to make their information public to begin with
(as the US
military did recently)."

You make a great point.

Eve Valdivia
Spiegel & McDiarmid
Washington, DC

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From: Brian Pomeroy
To: NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: Re: To link or not to link?
Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 9:50AM

At 10:10 AM 9/30/98 -0400, Anne Sanouillet wrote:

>I attended an Internet World Exhibition in Paris the other day, and heard a
>speech by a French lawyer from a firm specializing in Internet law. My
>surprise was total. She said that whenever you linked to a site or a URL,
>you should first ask permission. If you don't, the linked party can attack
>you if they feel like it. And apparently links can be bought and sold.

Perhaps French Internet law is different, but although notifying webmasters
of inclusion of their links is considered courteous, it isn't required as
far as I know.  Here in the US, there have been a few cases where linking
to a site has conflicted with certain business arrangements.  But in the
four years I've been developing Web sites, I've created hundreds of links
to external resources, and I've only had one request to remove a link.  We
have to bear in mind that people create Web sites to disseminate
information, and that linking is a way to further this purpose.  Webmasters
who object to having others link to their sites should re-evaluate whether
they want to make their information public to begin with (as the US
military did recently).


Brian Pomeroy
lunar@voicenet.com
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346/bio.htm
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - http://www.chop.edu/