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    1. Re: [STATE-COORD-L] Link requirement on National pages
    2. David W. Morgan
    3. I think it was meant to read every county rather than every page. In Texas, link to the main TXGenWeb page, the county selection page (one of them) and the USGenWeb page, on the main county page. David On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Betsy Mills wrote: > I am quite disturbed to realize that the requirement for "Pointer to state > page" states: > > "Every page must have a pointer to their State County Selection List > maintained by the state coordinator. (You might also put a note telling > people that if they have an interest in adopting a county they should > contact the state coordinator and provide the state coordinator's email > address)." > > There is NO requirement to link to the main state page although that is how > most of us have interpreted that rule. There has been discussion on this > list, I think, about how to keep people from linking to sub-pages instead > of the main site page and yet, this rule can be used/interpreted exactly > that way. A county site MUST link to a sub-page rather than the main > state page. Also notice that this states "EVERY PAGE" - and so that means > I need to change my state links on every one of my county pages to the > County List page rather than the main site? I am really not happy about this. > > Has anyone else besides me not noticed this before???? I personally will > not enforce this in my state, but I know other states are. > > Betsy > ARGenWeb SC > > David W. Morgan dmorgan@efn.org Honolulu Hawaii SC - TXGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ FM - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm ** http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/

    06/08/2003 06:55:29