Automated Link Exchange Backlash
Automated Link Exchange Backlash: "On some of my sites, I have two e-mail addresses for link requests - one for automatic software download and one for humans being. The former one will be filtered out even before it reaches my mailbox. "I encrypt email addresses for every site we manage (70+ sites) - so I do not receive automated link requests :)
I removed/encrypted all published email addresses on all sites a long time ago. It worked for a few months, but now the little devils have scripts that interrogates the domain registry and sends the emails to the admin email address associated with the domain name.
While I agree that a personalised email which is from an on topic site and with a specific mention of my site is not spam, I DO consider the generic "Dear Webmaster" recip requests from a completely off topic site to be borderline.
posted by Jen @ 7:55 AM
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