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And Duncan's specific point remains:

-- is it a violation of pornography laws (perhaps campus rules) to have a home page with links to URLs containing pornographic images?

-- is it a violation of _child pornography_ laws to have a home page with links to URLs containing child pornography images? (The URLs could be offshore, perhaps in jurisdictions where the age of consent is much different than in the U.S., e.g., Denmark or Thailand.)

-- is it a violation of national security laws to have a home page with links to URLs containing national defense secrets? (The URLs could be offshore.)

-- is it a violation of copyright/patent laws to have home pages with pointers to protected material? (Songs, written works, images, inventions, etc.)

And so on....

Here's my question, and a thought to ponder: If it is/becomes illegal to have links on a homepage to pornography because it is ruled as the same as having the pornography there; then can you have links to pages with links (the same as having it) to pornography? This repeats, so would it be legal to links at all? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Sokol-Margolis joseph@genome.wi.mit.edu Assistant Systems Administrator seph@mit.edu Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research phone: (617) 252-1922 One Kendall Sq. Bldg. 300 fax: (617) 252-1902 Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 ----------------------http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/~joseph/----------------- ----