What does Enable/Disable mean in Bing's URL Normalization feature?

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Published on 2011-11-18T21:23:06Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 2:09 UTC
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I'm in Bing Webmaster Tools, under Index > URL Normalization. Many parameters are listed in the table with 3 other columns: Status, Source, Date. The "Source" column says "Webmaster" where I have added parameters, and "Bing" where I assume the parameter has been auto-detected. "Date" is probably the last date it detected the parameter.

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I've tried searching the help files but I can't find what the Status column means. The top of the page says:

This feature allows you to specify query parameters for Bing’s crawler to ignore.

But it's not clear whether "Enable" or "Disable" is related to this, and if so what happens in each case. Does anyone know?

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