Re: A Legal Web Page Issue

At 9:55 PM 1/22/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Someone on the Cyberia mailing list has announced that his URL on
>legal matters (http://www.commlaw.com/pepper) can only be accessed by
>sites which charge a "flat rate." I'm not at all clear what he means
>by a flat rate here....is is flat rate per month, or per access, or
>what?
[...]
>So, give it a browse and add it if you find it interesting. When he
>sees a bunch of accesses (assuming his system has logs he can look at)
>from sites over which he cannot possibly hope to set policy for, he
>may realize the futility of this.
>
>(He can stop accesses, or charge admission, with various means--maybe
>not yet fully developed, or with commercial Web servers such as
>Netscape is developing--but he cannot release the URL and then enforce
>his ideas of who can access it. God forbid we have people trying to
>"copyright" their URLs and then collect royalites anytime the URL
>shows up in someone's list of interesting places.)

What a crazy thought. I will make sure to access his URL early and often.

BTW, what is your homepage URL? Or was that just a spoof?


-- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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Lucky Green wrote:

> What a crazy thought. I will make sure to access his URL early and often.
> 
> BTW, what is your homepage URL? Or was that just a spoof?

Not a spoof, but not necessarily a normal home page. What I call my
home page is my "lynx" page, "lynx_bookmarks.html", to which I add
whatever URLs look interesting. (Netcom currently does not support WWW
pages for outside access.)

--Tim May


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