My favorite part of this is MS's reaction to people who are complaining...
"Oh, if site admins don't like it, they can simply add a meta tag to their
code to turn off the links."
I love it. MS decides to do this, and if we don't like it, WE have to change
something.
What about making it so that the links show up only if the meta tag turned
it on?
I guess that would be crazy.
Raymond Camden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lon Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:55 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: You WILL follow me!
>
>
>
> This was in Risks Digest 21.46. The WSJ link has a nice story on this.
>
>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:55:52 -0700
> From: Stef Maruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: They're at it again: Internet Explorer Smart Tags in WinXP
>
> A while back, when www.deja.com still archived Usenet news, they tried
> to generate revenue by inserting URLs into Usenet posts archived on
> their site. Needless to say, this upset a lot of Usenet posters, who
> considered it a copyright violation.
>
> Now Microsoft is up to much the same thing with a new feature of WinXP
> called "Internet Explorer Smart Tags":
>
> http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB991862595554629527.html
>
> In effect, Microsoft will be able, through the browser, to re-edit
> anybody's site, without the owner's knowledge or permission, in
> a way that
> tempts users to leave and go to a Microsoft-chosen site --
> whether or not
> that site offers better information.
>
> Seems to me they should be called "Internet Explorer Sneak Tags."
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