Thanks Jacob and it's good to have someone confirm my thoughts.

All the best,

Simon


On 31 Mar 2010, at 08:12, Jacob Gorban wrote:

> I wouldn't bother wasting my time on these other sites.
> Most of them are almost scam (like Andy probably wrote) and they  
> hardly bring any value especially to Mac developers.
> Claiming your application might only give them excuse to email you  
> even more.
> I've had to setup a filter to trash all the email that started to  
> come from brotherdownloads.com (I think) with some unsolicited  
> downloads summary, without even registering an account there.
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> On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:54 , Simon Wolf wrote:
>
>> I submitted my first publicly available Mac application to a couple  
>> of sites (MacUpdate and iUseThis) recently and have started  
>> receiving the inevitable 'Your software has been approved...' and  
>> ''Your software has been awarded a 5 star rating...' emails from  
>> several other sites. I remember Andy Bryce (I think.. forgive me if  
>> I'm mis-remembering) talking about how useless and pointless these  
>> are but some of them include 'Claim ownership' links. Is it worth  
>> doing this or should I follow my gut feeling and just delete the  
>> emails?
>>
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