I have gotten 2 complaints so far today from people who were spammed by wikiverse.org. Wikiverse is a relatively nice and non-evil looking Wikipedia mirror. But they are apparently sending emails to webmasters who are in the "external links" section saying things like:

================== Dear webmaster at firesigntheatre.com,

My name is Kate Weaver (though most people just call me Katz) and I'm the Content Manager of Wikiverse.org - A World of Knowledge, a community of sites dedicated to providing high-quality informative web +content.

We placed a link to your site http://www.firesigntheatre.com in the External Link section of the Homepage of:

http://the-firesign-theatre.wikiverse.org/ (Check it out!)

I would appreciate it if you returned the favor and linked back to http://the-firesign-theatre.wikiverse.org/. Linking back to us will also help maintain your link with us in the future.

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This is evil. There is not much we can do about it, I think, but I just wanted to publicly shame them into stopping it.

--Jimbo