Re: Permission for website links

[Mary Ziller <sg93xaw8@MATH.UPENN.EDU>]

Dear LM_NETers,

As I understand it, one should ask permission to link to sites because of
bandwidth.  If too many people access your site, you have to pay your
server more money becasue too much band width is being used...or so I have
heard.

I read a complaint from the provider of free clipart that users must
always copy the image to their own server and not link directly to the
host server.  Apparently some free clipart sites had to close down because
the cost of the aditional bandwidth due to people directly linking was
prohibitive.

If anyone can shed some light on linking and bandwidth usage, I would be
appreciative. TIA

--Mary Ziller
sg93xaw8@drexel.edu
grad student at Drexel University, Phila., PA
Internet Tutor for Lower Merion Libraries


> Subject:      Permission for website links
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> This is a bit late but pertains to the discussion about requiring
> permission from a site before linking it to a webpage.  The comments
> came from Tom Easton, a professor at Thomas College, Waterville, Maine.
> He is currently a professor in their Masters computer technology in
> education program in which a friend of mine is enrolled. His comments
> [follow]...
>
> > _Of course_ one doesn't need permission to link to a site.  The mere
> > existence of the site is tacit permission since that is the entire
> > purpose of having a site!  It's like a book in the library--you don't
> > need the author's permission to open it, nor to cite in the references
> > to a paper.

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