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[Simon Spero <ses AT tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

 On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 03:47 PM, Steven Champeon wrote:

> site. I'm sorry, but the idea of Microsoft forcing us to opt out (just
> as they did with the useless favicon.ico debacle) is rude at best and
> anti-competitive at worst.

Wouldn't it be awful if people were to write software that sent a rapid stream of initial SYNs and ICMP echo requests to the target sites for smart tags until microsoft added the host name and destination port to an opt-out file on their web site. :-)

Simon
p.s.
Smart tags sound a lot like the old idea of annotation servers that date back all the way to CERN. Seemed a lot less threatening then...