mil2k - 1:25 pm on May 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

by the sounds of it you are talking about running a bot of some kind

Nopes i am talking about visiting sites personally :)

now lots of people (myself included) think these sorts of things are no different to your typical email harvester and so they get blocked/denied.

I agree and fully Recommend doing so :)

Finally maybe its just my naivety but surely if you were paying someone to find any type of quality links you'd want them to manually review each possible site and as part of this I fail to see how difficult it is for them to find an appropriate contact method.

That's what i am saying. Guys not having any visible email on your website will help you maybe stop getting those SPAM mails. But have you given it a thought that many third party link hunters are unable to communicate link exchange with you because you have that Contact us Form. :)