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["Paula Paul" <Paula AT PaulSoftware.com>]

> 
> Might want to take a look at what the Press is saying about Smart Tags
or
> join the Smart Tags listserv on yahoogroups.  Our company considers it
a
> privacy violation based on the information that has been reported by
> Microsoft directly.
> 

I took a different approach... after reading some of the hype, I decided
to understand exactly how Smart Tags are implemented.  I know how to
write my own, and how to enable and disable them.  It's pretty basic,
simple stuff.  I probably won't go out of my way to use them, but there
are some pretty interesting desktop productivity applications for them.

Now that I understand the technology, I don't have much need for the
hype.  I don't really fear Smart Tags at all (any more than I fear any
other DLL).  Smart Tags are just DLLs - you can choose to enable them or
not, and as such I don't really see any privacy being invaded (unless by
choice).  Personally, I think it's more of an invasion for web authors
to disable them via meta tags, since my desktop is configured the way I
like it, and I don't like web developers taking my choices away ;-)

Cheers,
Paula

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