From a reccer's side, I don't [normally] link to f-locked stuff. I do it only when the fic was archived but the archive moved/died/smth else like that so the open link is lost, more a reminder for myself to find another link. I don't want to, I dunno, coerce readers? To read a f-locked fic they will have to friend a person and read everything else of theirs, including every ramble about their cat and aunt, on their flist. Seems a bit skewed. Besides, a fic might have been locked because a writer doesn't want it to be read by people beside the close group they know well.
I do link to password protected archives though, such as ISF, The RS, HP/SS FQF, where there's such a number of various fics that most people are ready to bother to get the password. Besides, they are *arhives*, so if somebody posted their fic there, they must realise that the fic becomes open for public.
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Date: 2006-02-21 03:14 am (UTC)I do link to password protected archives though, such as ISF, The RS, HP/SS FQF, where there's such a number of various fics that most people are ready to bother to get the password. Besides, they are *arhives*, so if somebody posted their fic there, they must realise that the fic becomes open for public.