I Got An Email From Exmasters

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Greenie

There are a lot of Link Lists that will decline (and blacklist) anything from a number of hosts - exmasters, hqhost, 3fn, est, advanced, sago, etc.

These places seem to be a haven for shady sites/domains - from rule breakers to questionable sites.

So, like so many other things (counters, pop-ups, etc) it's easier to just decline anything you see from those hosts.

Let's face it - you never hear about a rape site on National Net - or a multisubmitter on Colo-cation - or a guy with questionable content on Webair.

I really need some of my old-school LL friends in here before people think I've (completely) lost my mind

No, you've not lost your mind Greenie. Well, at least not on this topic anyway

Having recently taken over managing a couple old link sites, and having done quite a bit of cleanup on the sites, the theory about those hosts was borne out by what I found. By and large, the vast majority of the cheaters/scammers/redirects/spyware installing fucks were hosted by one of the hosts you mention...and almost all were reg'd with estdomains. Big fucking hairy suprise...NOT!