I'll get right on that.

[snarp]

Link Removal Request

From: Keith Terrell (Keith.Terrell@melbourneit.com.au)

To: sarahpin.com@respectmyprivacy.com

Hello,

We recently reviewed all the links pointing to the MelbourneIT website, and found that you currently have link/s to us on your website, sarahpin.com.

While we appreciate your support, our online marketing team has requested that the links listed below be removed if possible, as they no longer

comply with the guidelines set out by the various search engines.

The page/s of your website that we found links on are:

http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/07/19/recent-researches-why-yahoo-private-domain-registration-is-not-private/

We appreciate your time in reviewing this. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any problems locating the links.

Kind regards,
Keith

The link in question is on one of several extremely critical posts I've made about Yahoo and MelbourneIT's unethical business practices. MelbourneIT provides Yahoo's horrific domain registration services.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

The alternate explanation is no less hilarious: spammers, and people who have employed spam campaigns in the past, are starting to get dinged by Google. So they send these form letters to places that they or their agents have spammed in the past, and any other thing that Google thinks looks like spam intended to promote them.

The Dreamwidth anti-spam team gets a few very sincere letters like this every now and then. Sometimes it's about actual spam which they are now regretting. Sometimes it is about real users having linked to them. If it's not actual spam, they are told to piss up a rope. If it is actual spam, it does tend to disappear, but (depending on the circumstances) they may still be told to piss up a rope.