Re: your mail

>Here are some possibilities, all bad:
>1) Always return the page for company X [Y].  Obviously this surprises
>the customers of company Y [X].
>2) Return a page that says "Follow this link to company X and this link
>to company Y."  But company X may not like to be mentioned in the same
>sentence as company Y.
>3) Return an error.

        Dave illustrates the problem(s) pretty well.

        I don't understand why we're so hung up on

                http://X.mythical.host.com/
                http://Y.mythical.host.com/

        Why can't we go directly to  "non home"  or  sub-pages?
Why can't we do things like this:

                http://service.provider.net/home_page_X
                http://service.provider.net/home_page_Y

        Perhaps I've forgotten why,  if the original poster indicated.

        Ramani?   What was the problem with this approach?

--
Rick Troth <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/

Received on Monday, 8 May 1995 14:41:30 UTC