Bio4ce - 5:25 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Funny, I had a run in with something similar during the update. First, we all know that during the update, PR can fluctuate. This particular site was fairly new and last month it was a PR0. At the time the link exchange request was made, my link page was showing a PR5. The person said that they already had my link up on their site. I didn't immediately respond, but I later checked his site out before I put up his link to see if the link was there. I couldn't find it. When I contacted him about it, he replied that it appeared that my site has been banned and he didn't want to link to a banned site.

I had to laugh at his ignorance a little regarding the fluctuating PR during the dance, but it brought up a good point. How do you know link requests are coming from banned sites, or new sites that haven't been assigned PR?