[IxDA Discuss] "home" links

[Micah Freedman]

Does anyone have any research and/or rules-of-thumb about the  
usefulness of putting "home" in the permanent navigation? I tend to  
want to leave it off because A) on most sites, I feel like once the  
user is in the site, there's not really much of a reason for them to  
go home, and B) The "click on the logo to go home" pattern seems  
universal enough that everyone *should* know about it. OTOH, I can  
easily imagine "Aunt Tilly" looking for the home link and getting  
confused if it's not there. Are there times when it should be used?  
Times when it shouldn't? Times when it's optional?

-Micah