outland88 - 7:19 pm on Oct 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Google did start sending out messages like that in the past 8 weeks as a test whether to pursue program. It has its negatives and positives the first being is whether the E-Mail is actually from Google.

Marcia's thoughts are very interesting. Webmasters do hide links in various ways to protect content from thieves, except when accessed by keyword searches. Thieves mainly go after index pages but if you stick it in their noses they'll steal that too.