All this commercial stuff makes it more difficult, of course. But I've always thought linking was THE basic idea of the WWW? I've put quite a few links to individual Mudcat threads on 'my' (actually Henry's, and totally non-commercial) website because that seemed the quickest way to make info collected here accessible to interested people.
I do hope that with the dive of share prices of everything to do with the Internet the crass commercialism will recede a bit and the Net left for the purpose it was originally designed for - sharing information on a mutual basis.