Re: Amano's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2001. (fwd)

["James Purchase" <jppurchase@home.com>]

I was thinking that you meant to put the link on the Showcase/Contest
site.....now i see that you were referring to the main AGA site.....

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Amano's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2001. (fwd)


> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, James Purchase wrote:
>
> > EXCEPT....... if we are going to provide a link to THEIR site, I think
it
> > only FAIR that they be REQUIRED to provide a recriprocal link to OUR
site.
> > Otherwise, why are we even bothering? Amano totally ignored my efforts
to
> > contact him - we don't owe him any favours.
>
> Well, first the link is not on the showcase site, it's on the AGA "Proper"
> site. So it's more in the jurisdiction of the steering committee than our
> little group here.  Personally, I've had my share of debating "we don't
> owe XXX any favours" issues lately, so I'm just making that call as AGA
> webmaster to put in the link.  The AGA is about promoting the hobby in any
> way we can.  And second, from a general webmaster perspective, I've NEVER
> required reciprocal links of anyone on any of the sites I maintain.  My
> view is that I'm not going to put links in just because someone told me
> they linked to my site, so I'm not going to expect them to do the same.
> We could ASK, but I don't see any links anywhere on their site, so I doubt
> it would happen.
>
>    - Erik
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
>
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