Anyway

Found in my inbox this morning:

Hello,

I found your web­site http://www.xmlconference.org on Google. 

Your web­site has con­tent related to our’s at www.the-gallery-of-china.com.
This is a very high qual­ity web­site and is very well ranked on Google (PR7).

We are happy to upload a link onto this web­site in any way you request in exchange for a return link. I’m sure you appre­ci­ate that this would be of great bene­fit to us both.

fol­lowed by instruc­tions as to what inform­a­tion the XML con­fer­ence should put on its web site and how to send them the link inform­a­tion we want on their web site. 

The “Gal­lery of China” has some clas­sic­al-look­ing Chinese art; I’m not sure how suit­able it really is for the XML Art­work dis­play we’re hav­ing at XML 2004. So I guess we won’t link to it…