Posting to FFA link sites and Google

Is it considered spam or acceptable practice for new sites?

[FlashRed]

Software such as Active WebTraffic Pro and (I assume) Web Position Gold have the FFA post facility to get links out there on the web. OK, there's been a great deal of discussion on this site for webmasters wishing to follow acceptable practice that "links TO a site from a bad neighbourhood is not damaging" (so long as you do not link back to these neighbourhoods)... but is there any possibility that Google would consider this spam?... could the next crawl target this as spam and penalize sites that appear to use FFA farms.

The reason for my belief in it as acceptable for new sites is to get *some* inbound links and try to crawl their way up the PR ladder. Is this fair, or simply unacceptable?

Any thoughts?

[mack]

I think Google deal with this by penalising the FFA pages. Normaly link farms will have a very low PR or PR0, so getting a link on a link farm is really not much use. Also when you post to a FFA site your link will probably only be visable for a few mins. The sheer volume of traffic to these places ensures your link soon dropps off the bottom of the page.

[makemetop]

>(I assume) Web Position Gold...

Just for the record WPG does not submit to any FFA sites - only major SEs.