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Freedom for MMD Information
By Karl Ellison

All MMD articles are freely published on the Foxtail archive web site.

You can search the articles needed by keyword or by author index, then,
reference the resulting URL or make a pointer to it in your web page.
If the web site is someday blocked by the publisher, then the data is
simply no longer available.

I believe this solves the plagiarism/permission issue, though in light
of the published archives, this "problem" really didn't exist to begin
with.

Karl Ellison
Ashland, Massachusetts

 [ Karl, this brings up an interesting point.  On the first page
 [ of the Website, we request that referencing MMD Website URLs
 [ other than the front page should be done only with written
 [ permission, unless the reference is the output of a search
 [ engine.  The principal reason for this is that we do, from
 [ time to time, rearrange the Website.  If we know who's referencing
 [ internal pages, we can notify them so their Websites don't
 [ appear to be "wrong".  The search engines eventually figure
 [ out the structural changes, so they aren't a problem.
 [
 [ One other issue that happens any time you reference someone
 [ else's Website is that you need to instruct the user that they
 [ are leaving the Website and must use the "back" button to
 [ come back.  Many Web pages have a "back" or "return" button
 [ or link at the bottom of the page that returns to THAT Website's
 [ home page.  Thus your user may never get back to your Website.
 [ I'm investigating some technology for building "return" buttons
 [ that actually return to the referencing page (possibly from another
 [ Website) rather than some fixed address.  I'll report on this
 [ technology later if I'm successful.     --Jody


(Message sent Fri 22 May 1998, 09:17:59 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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