Ramster - I got my copy of Link Admin around the end of 98, so yes, it was 2 years without a script
Oh man - I remember editing all my pages in TextPad, having a long list of "fill in the blanks" html coding on a NotePad - running my linkbot & having all the categories open in TextPad & then searching for the sites that needed to be removed - moving sites that were 7 days old by hand to the category pages.
Good times
