Re: Avoiding the first page with an index

From: <Thresshold[_at_]aol.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:38:01 -0400 (EDT)

On 97-04-11, Phil Stripling <philip[_at_]crl.com> wrote: 

>

> If people have a page on the Web, it's publicly available for reading. I
> don't think it's an ethical issue to point to pages out of the order the
> author intended. Isn't the Web the biggest nonlinear information system
> in the world?

I believe that under certain circumstances it is inappropriate to link to a page in the middle of a site. Those circumstances include a link to specific proprietary content [i.e., a "hot news" item] which bypasses the credit page. However, I don't think that the burden of making the determination as to whether the link is "proper" should be placed on the person making the link. Rather, if in the author's view the site should only be viewed in a particular order, then the author should construct the site [using cgi scripts or otherwise] so that links to an internal or out of sequence page are bumped to the first page. Absent such action on the part of the author, it is fair to link [but not copy] to any page.

Bob Penn
<thresshold[_at_]aol.com> Received on Sat Apr 12 1997 - 14:38:31 GMT

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