Re: [Bug-gnupedia]External Links in New Window

[Alexander Braun]

->Perhaps I don't understand why this is unacceptable. Am I not allowed to
->mention Amazon.com in my articles, because some computers will interpret
->that as a "link"? Are my articles not allowed to include the forbidden
->characters: http://www.*.com/ ? What's so bad about mentioning other sites.
->Surely, if we were building a great encyclopedia -- the task we seem to have
->thrust on Nupedia -- we would want to not include links, but I don't see why
->they can't be in the great, open, uncensored GNE.
->

It's unacceptable because then GNE would support non-free sites. Besides
GNE is in danger to lose it's freedom. I'm sitting in Germany and courts
start to decide in really weird manners about links to other pages. 

But this raises another question. What is a link? Is it already a link to
write the address into a document or is a link only a real hyperlink (<a
href="">)? The latter case seems easy to handle (just grep them away), but
the first case seems to carry the danger of censorship.

alexander