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If you were looking for Asimba, I regret to inform you that I am no longer allowed to link to them. Yesterday, I got this in my email (note the broken mail merge):

Subject: Affiliate status and inappropriate content
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: affiliates@asimba.com
To: perryfecteau@yahoo.com
CC: affiliates@asimba.com

Dear <<FIRST_NAME>> <<LAST NAME>>,
The web site <<SITE_NAME>> at <<URL>> has been disabled as an Asimba affiliate. The site contains inappropropriate content and/or links which are in violation of the terms of the Asimba Affiliate Operating Agreement (http://www.asimba.com/partners/befree/agreement.html). Specifically:

1. ENROLLMENT IN THE PROGRAM
... In addition, if Affiliate's Web site ("Affiliate Site") contains any materials that Asimba, in its sole discretion, finds objectionable, Asimba may reject Affiliate's application. Examples of objectionable material include:
- material that is pornographic or sexually explicit;
- material that promotes discrimination based upon gender, race, religion, nationality, disability or age;
- material that promotes hate, violence or illegal activities;
- material that is defamatory or libelous;
- material that violates any municipal, state, federal, foreign or other applicable law or regulation;
and
- material that infringes the copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, rights of publicity, or any other proprietary right of Asimba or any third party.
If Asimba discovers that the Affiliate Site contains any objectionable materials during your participation in the Program, Asimba may immediately terminate this Agreement or suspend your status as a participant in the Program. In addition, Asimba reserves the right to terminate an affiliation at any time.

Please remove all Asimba links from your web site within one week of receiving this email. Thank you.
Asimba, Inc.

 


So I removed the link. But not because they could have scared me out of linking to them with their ridiculous letter. I removed the link because crap like this offends me. The nature of the web is that you can get anywhere from any page. This usually happens through a succession of clicks to different links. A person can easily avoid pornography or any other "offensive material" by NOT CLICKING ON ANY OF THOSE LINKS or using a program like Cyber Patrol. The page I think they're talking about doesn't even link to them and to make matters worse, it's probably the lamest page on my site. For this company to tell me what I can or cannot put on a page that does not have a direct link to them is offensive to me.

I send about 500 customers to Amazon each month. A good number of those customers end up buying something. They realize that any customer is a good customer. They realize that the more "eyeballs" they get, the higher the potential for actual sales. They aren't going to turn down business because of some petty issue of a page on a site that doesn't show any direct association with them whatsoever. Asimba apparently is and this is the reason I have removed my link to their page. Apparently they are so wildly successful that they have the ability to select where their customers come from. More power to them.

I predict their business will fail within one year.