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Words are turned into links and I don't think it's deliberate

Brigade du jour

18:38 / 01.12.04

Sorry if there's a thread dealing with this already, but I only noticed it today and a cursory scan in Policy & Help doesn't cough up anything obvious, so ...

The word 'personal' in one of my very recent posts (in The Late Shift Remembers' thread in Conversation, about ten minutes ago) appears as a link to a dating site. I just noticed the words 'gift' and 'contact' also appearing as links in other threads, linking to tiscali.co.uk or some such.

I clicked 'edit post' on my own aforementioned post and pointed this out, but as I've now seen the phenomenon elsewhere I thought I'd better mention it in here too.

Spatula Clarke

19:49 / 01.12.04

It's not Barbelith, it's your machine. Something's wormed its way onto it and is turning random words into smart tags. Stop using Internet Explorer and download Firefox instead. AdAware and Apybot S&D are also your friends - links in this thread. They should hunt the nastiness down and stop it from doing its thing, but definitely make the shift to Firefox if you want to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Brigade du jour

13:44 / 02.12.04

Oh right, now I see! I'm actually visiting my folks at the moment and using their computer.

Thanks ever so much for the tip, I'll pass it on to them.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:07 / 02.12.04

Another vote for Firefox here- why does anyone still use IE again?

sleazenation

14:41 / 02.12.04

Well I still use the smart tag free IE5 on the grounds that it is, as far as i'm aware - the most advanced browser available for a Mac using OS9...

Tom Coates

07:44 / 03.12.04

Dude you REALLY need to abandon OS9 if you can. OSX is way way better.

sleazenation

08:36 / 03.12.04

Oh I've got OSX on my ibook at home, but at work we are all still chained to Quark 4.1 which, in turn, chains all the office computers to OS9... The shift to OSX (and probably indesign) will come, but many publishing houses will put it off for as long as possible - the lack of new OS9-bootable Macs to buy will also help power this shift...

Tom Coates

09:21 / 03.12.04

Can't you run Quark in Classic mode THROUGH OSX?

lekvar

03:47 / 04.12.04

You can, but I'd sooner recommend scratchig your eyes out with shards of broken glass. But you can also use Navigator (click the MAC OS 9 users link), which sucks less than IE, or Mozilla which sucks less than Navigator.

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