i know with my own site host i am supposed to always enter through the index page and traffic is monitored....although i am guilty of posting questionnaires which are unlinked and then giving the url to interviewees...is this considered to be deep linking too? i also am doing an online ethnography of an internet community and sometimes use graphics etc that i have posted without links on my webpages...so when my particular internet community home is accessed there is a 'deep-link' back to my own website i didn't consider this to be particularly illegal (apart from being against the wishes of a company that i pay to host my web pages)...but i wouldn't appreciate it if strangers linked back to my graphics in order to enhance their own web sites.(i use the word enhance loosely!!) Hmmm...makes me think! D.M.CARTER DOCTORAL STUDENT CASS UNIVERSITY OF HULL EMAIL: d.m.carter@cas.hull.ac.uk OR: denisecarter@denisecarter.net WEB PAGES: http://www.denisecarter.net