Michael_Anthony - 7:21 pm on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

In the UK, around 80% of the link request emails I get these days are from outsourced link builders. You can always spot them a mile off as their english is dire and if you try and talk to them it goes from bad to diabolical.

A sample..

Hello,

I came across your web site recently [mysite.com...]
and I am intrigued by its contents. I was particularly fascinated by
your site. I thought our web site might interest you and be of help
to your web site visitors.

Or in other words - this email can be applied to any site on any subject as it uses such vague language. Sure they were fascinated - by my SERPS and PR!

In this case, my site was for personal finance, and theirs for light switch plates. Yeah, really relevant!