[12681] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Netiquette query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BOREI@SMCLIB.SMCVT.EDU)
Mon Jan 25 20:01:31 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:44:07 -0500
From: BOREI@SMCLIB.SMCVT.EDU
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Linda: I have not ever requested permission to link, and as you can see
from the site I created at Trinity College of Vermont (www.trinityvt.edu/alib),
I've done lots of linking! It seems to me that in the Internet environment,
asking for permission to link becomes an impractical exercise (even if for
personal pages it might be courteous -- and I have been asked a few times
about linking to my personal page, as opposed to the library site above).
It's not as though I in any way present the linked-to page as my own work!!
Isn't it comparable to including a citation to a work in a bibliography,
something which you would never ask permission for?
But this is a personal opinion only, of course.
Karin Borei
