Heh heh - dontcha love 'em?

My example I think I may have told you about, Michael. It was the e-book about ferrets entitled "The Ferret Owners Guide to the Internet - Over 3000 links to everything you could possibly want to know about pet ferrets"

Pretty clear - an ebook full of LINKS, right? Well, we got run out of town PDQ. We were accused of stealing content (but we're only linking to YOUR site, bonehead). We got lots of the "how DARE you link" complaints. Even - "you're using up my bandwidth", can you believe!

We were on the wrong end of a carefully orchestrated, nasty little campaign which resulted in our hosting service shutting us down. 12 months and thousands of hours of my wife's labour of love, gone in 48 hours!

So, TLC, you never know where these clowns are hiding - as I said, just be careful!

Cheers

Philip

> A few years back we were going to link to a
> certain site. They asked that all links to
> them be via a small graphic.

> Two graphics to choose from...

> One with the words "Member of..."
> written on it. And another generic graphic
> without membership claims. We chose the
> generic one because we were not members
> (which required payment)

> They emailed us and told us we were
> violating their copyright and we could only
> use the generic graphic if we were paying
> members.

> After informing them that we did not want to
> use the graphic with the word
> "Member" on it because that would
> be lying, they got even more huffy about it.

> Highlight code. Cut. Problem solved.

> I can understand a desire not to be linked
> to if the linking site is totally unrelated.
> Such as a sex site linking to your tea-towel
> embroidery business. But when a themed site
> links to another site with the same theme,
> and the linked to site gets their knickers
> in a knot, then someone is a few milligrams
> short on magnesium me thinks.

> Michael Ross