I totally agree with that. Most of the link request emails are quickly put together and unthoughtful.<p>The people who write honest emails to me about how we can both provide value to each other do not happen very often but when they do I always listen. If fact if someone has a good resource that would provide value to my users I am happy to link to it. It's great to discover a "diamond in the rough" before my competitors to.<p>I am not advocating link spam here. I am saying that users should do their research and find sites that an inbound would prove value to both parties.