manny@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
according to their rules, every member had to place the "webring"
banner in his web site's front page. When I tried to understand the
purpose of that was when I've found the World of Webrings page and
started reading.
Well, a rule that requires a member site to place the navpanel
prominently doesn't disqualify a ring from being a 'real' webring IMO.
Maybe you could expand on why you found that rule remarkable.
My point is: We can't forbid someone to describe his or her Web
site as Webring. There's no way to stop someone to download and
install this wonderfull program that is Ringlink, even when there's
no other site but his/her own attached to it. What it could be
done, is to have a kind of Webring validator system (Something like
the W3C HTML validator) that would give a certification (small
linked banner) as an authentic web ring. This won't stop
one-page-webrings, but it would give the others a credibility the
first ones won't have.
An interesting idea, Manny. May I ask you to please present it on the
World of Webrings mailing list, too? Since the idea is applicable to
other webrings but Ringlink ditto, I believe it would be appropriate
to discuss it there at first hand.
Btw, I'd say that applying rules for accepting a webring in the
Ringlink Webring Directory is a step in just that spirit. Wouldn't you
agree?
/ Gunnar