[thelist] More Smart Tags

[Tony Crockford]

> > Therefore, adding links to your web pages without your explicit
> > permission (ie you would need to opt *in* to the concept, and
> > even then would probably have right of veto over links (or at least
> > categories of links) added) could very much be intepreted as a IP
> > dispute.
>
> well, they aren't adding links, they are highlighting words...
> however, if that META tag were strictly opt-in (instead of opt-out),
> this would all be moot... so we should be focusing on that,
> instead...

I wonder, hope beyond hope, if we'll be able to select which recognisers
we do or don't want highlighting our words?  Much preferred to the all
or nothing approach we have been promised so far.

I'd like to be able to allow dictionary.com smart tags and deny Dell.com
smart tags on my E-commerce site (what's the probability of this being
possible?)