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Subject:	Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:19:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes: > [...] By the same token, the concept that there might be something wrong > with looking at an image to which there isn't a readily-obvious hyperlink > is ludicrous to (I think I'm safe in saying this) a vast majority of those > with a basic level of knowledge of the World Wide Web. Hmm, maybe that's the heart of the controversy right there! I dunno about the net population at large, but I'd certainly experience guilt feelings if I summoned up an image to which there was no readily- obvious hyperlink, because I'd assume that the reason there was no link was because I wasn't supposed to see it or find it. Then again, I'm not someone who snoops in people's medicine cabinets either (not that anyone here is). --Todd

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) I'm coming to think so too. To me, this is fundamentally why we have a URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators. The ability to identify and access resources directly is a basic design decision underlying what makes the WWW what it is. If the intent (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) Probably. (...) Maybe you haven't spent much time on personal homepages. Misspelled links in the source are more common than correct ones, it sometimes seems. Oh, and of course all webdevelopment gets done on case-insenstive FAT16/32. And then (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
On my site, I assume that ANYTHING on my site will be viewed by someone sooner or later. If I don't want it viewed, I remove it. The most I do for "security" is put index.html files in directories that I might consider sensitive. But then again, I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) That's silly. Those two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Brad even specifically mentioned something about "by accident or by intent". So you're telling me that if you accidentally mistype a character in a URL and end up seeing an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
(...) I don't see how this corresponds. 1. She didn't invite people over specifically to see her paintings, she invited them to housewarming which happened to display a few paintings. On the other hand, the entire purpose of Lego's web site is to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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