I believe this is the crux of the issue. We have had Unscrupulous operators
trying to sell advertising on their sites by "framing" our work, and we have
also had them bulk up their sites by copious use of linking to our sites.
neither of these is acceptable to me.
A usefull links page is quite a different matter, i have no objection to that.
Its fine for academia to say its a free system, but its us who are paying
the dollars for the webmonkeys to produce the stuff.
Not all content has logos and company copyright notices on it that cannot
be removed by these operators when framing it, they can even cover the nav
down the bottom with freely available java. It will come up as their work if
they want it to and often, wether deliberate or not it will appear that way.
remember the shetland island thing last year, or was it early this year?
how soon we forget.
ask them if you are in doubt and often, because you are similar sites ,
they will return the link. If not you will soon find out why. thats netiquitte
ron
Ron Ipsen,
Managing Director,
Gippsland Internet Pty Ltd
Ph: 61 3 51 276543 Fax: 61 3 51 262020
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