AHHHH the board ate my post! Maybe it's for the best as it was getting long-winded.
I'll take most incoming links, freehosted or not. (Freehosted stuff I will scrutinize more closely.) I'll take the traffic plus a little PR, and give a little something back to them too.
But yeah I definitely also (greatly) prefer links to/from sites on their own domains. Just don't forget guys that the freehosts do offer you something - you don't have to deal with (or have to figure out!!!) hosting costs, the blog/feedlist script, and all the other stuff that goes along with hosting sites on your own domains.
That said I will never put any serious sites of my own on a freehost, not a chance! I will take the top ad spot, thank you. (Also if you decide to take a holiday for a year or two, what do you do if thumblogger/myfeedlist.com decides to remove your sites?)
Gotta go. T Pat, thanks also for posting, you will probably have some submissions shortly (I will check out your sites first).
If anyone would like to list any feedlists/aggregators that are sending them traffic, I'd love to hear from you.
Cheers,
~ Latif
latifo (at) telus (dot) net