A Question about Blogging Netiquette

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Originally Posted by dunc

Id say thanks a free backlink

Don't worry about the PR - its another route for SE's or people to find your site

Well it's not the PR so much as the blog possibly being sandboxed that worries me - I wonder if I were to link from my blog to a sandboxed blog do I get penalized - kind of like google cooties...
Hope I was clear enough about that in my second post.
But Dunc, you are saying just say thanks and don't bother to link back from any of my blogs at all?
Hope I am making sense, I am really really sick today and running a high fever - hopefully will not have to go to the ER - why does this always happen on weekends..