RE: [Out of Topic] I hate M$ Smart Tags

["Sagar R. Shah" <sagarshah at softhome dot net>]

> This smart tag business in Internet Explorer and/or Windows XP RC1 looks
> like a nice trick of redirecting whole Internet traffic to M$ and
> MSN sites.
> I was playing around on Cygwin/Xfree86 UR with Internet Explorer
> 6 9Windows
> XP RC1).  Words like Xfree, CVS, PATH, Server, Exec (in scripts)
> and tons of
> other commonly used words get smart tags assigned by Internet Explorer and
> directing traffic to Microsoft websites, MSN, and MSN Money Central etc.
> What a crap to monopolize the world....
>
> Anyway it is out of topic.  I was pissed off seeing even words like CVS
> Xfree and PATH etc are smart tagged and redirecting traffic to M$ from our
> Cygwin/Xfree86 site if Internet Explorer 6 RC1/Windows XP RC1 is used.
>
> Suhaib

I know it's not nice haveing to put this in all your pages, but you could
try:

<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

That should prevent smart tag crap, (unless M$ decide not to support the tag
in the final build)

Sagar

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