P.S. this is a personal peeve with me – make sure people can find their links on your site . Alphabetize them or something! When I have to go through page after page of links thrown in with no order – well, I don’t! I just remove their link from my side. Who has the time for that B.S.?
After spending all of Easter looking at link exchanges I have to disagree with you on this one. Most of the time “no particular order” is really a first come first served order. If you list in alpha order and limit the amount of links per page to a reasonable amount (which you shoud be doing) then the page my link appears on can change over time. Do you want me to spider your whole site, or just the page I know the link should be on?
And why should some-one get the benefit of being on the first links page (usually the oldest link page and the highest PR) just because their title begins with the letter A?
Fergie, I understand your frustration because I have spent too long searching through sites manually as well, but once I find the page I would like to think my link will stay on that page. Unless of course you are just saying to put the links on each page in alpha order, and not all the links over all the links pages. Hope this last sentence makes sense.