Hi Ian
No you shouldn't ignore it - it describes the current state of play.
However things may change in the near future (which could be relaxing or
strengthening of the current rules).
Brian
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Brian Kelly
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University of Bath
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From: "Ian Sealy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Brian Kelly" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Help Required
> Dear Brian,
>
> > At present advertising on the JANET network, which is used by the UK
> > Higher Education community, is not allowed under the JANET
> > Acceptable Use Policy.
>
> In that case what's the status of:
>
> http://www.ja.net/documents/factsheets/advertising.pdf
>
> It was mentioned in a message to the web-support JISCmail list in
> February:
>
>
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0102&L=web-support&F=&S=&P=22
716
>
> One part of it says:
>
> Advertising Banners
> Small advertising banners are permitted on JANET web sites, provided
> both the banner and the link to the advertiser's site are stored
> locally on the web server of the organisation with the JANET
> connection. It is not acceptable to link to advertising material
> stored on a commercial database that is pulled into JANET as a web
> page loads.
>
> The Factsheet was only published in February (I think). Should we ignore
> it?
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
>
> --
> Dr Ian Sealy
> Internet Development
> Institute for Learning and Research Technology
> University of Bristol
>
>
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