Re: your mail

Rick Troth (TROTH@ua1vm.ua.edu)
Mon, 8 May 1995 19:15:47 +0500

>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?

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