bakedjake - 5:26 pm on Oct 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

WBF's response is dead on:

It amazes me that people post that they are tired of seeing directories come up in the SERPs and then post that there is no evidence that outbound links can improve one's rankings.

I have done no extensive testing with outbound vs. no outbound, but I can tell you from eyeballing it and my gut feeling is that it does in fact help.

It certainly doesn't hurt.