Custom recips

[kitty_kate]

After receving encouraging reviews and pretious advices for my first free site, I've started to submit to Link Lists. When surfing on the LLs to check my competition, I've notice one thing: some free site builders are using custom recips, made by them. I would like to start using custom recips too, because they would look better with my layout (not to mention that a lot of the recips I saw are full of invalid HTML code).

Now, my question: what should I do? Should I go and ask for every LL owner his/hers permission to build a custom recip? Or should I just build'em and submit my free sites, and not worring that I would get banned?

P.S. when customizing the recips, I _will_ keep the original text and links, changing only size and some colors to make them fit to my color scheme.