Re: Smart Tags

From: Tod Foley <tod_at_asifproductions.com>
Date: Thu 06 Sep 2001 10:46:43 -0500

ALEX KNOX <en_fuego19_at_yahoo.com> WROTE:

>I was wondering if
>anyone else has heard about this and whether it is a
>hoax or real. If it is a real threat, is there anyway
>to protect my site from the smart tags?

There would have been a META tag for that, but Smart
Tags have become the straw man, with Microsoft backing
down while other (smaller and hungrier) companies have
picked up the same MO and are now utilizing it to even
more infuriating degrees. Some are even linking to adult
sites from general-audience sites. See the following
articles and threads:

Information Superhighway Robbery
http://www.asifproductions.com/next.php?id=83

Don't Eat the Yellow Links
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/31/2015216&amp;mode=thread

GetHighForums.com
http://gethighforums.com/Forum10/HTML/001386.html

WebHostingTalk.com
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=18027&amp;perpage=20&a
mp;pagenumber=1

LVX
TF


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