> > But stranger still, something I've NEVER understood, not now, not when I started mucking around on the web before it was a mainstream thing: why on earth would people want "back to" links on subpages of sites that point back at the main page?
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> The reason all of my subpages carry the "back" link is exactly that: if people get to them from some nefarious route, I want them to be able to get back to my main page easily.

Right. And that in itself is reason enough to have them. However, when RinkWorks was young -- possibly even before it was RinkWorks -- I did actually get mail from people who wanted the back links just to get "back" to the main page.