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The question why so many people bookmarked about:blank at del.icio.us still bugs me. (Apparently there was only one person (Jeff) who tried to answer.)
The for-tag is quite good way to contact people via del.icio.us. But it’s hard to use it for a lot of user names.
So I wrote a little program that parses the site for the user names, and then generates a huge string consisting of for:user1 for:user2 for:user3…. I copied that string and tagged my posting with it.

Pros

• Contact many people at once.
• Reach a peer group with a special interest.
• Easy and fast.
• No costs of distribution.

Cons

• Some might consider it as spam
• Users get angry.
• The huge tag line with the for-tags stays there and somehow messes up your link list.
• For some reason it takes a long time until the link appears on the for-page.

It’s going to be interesting how many people will respond to this broadcast. (Maybe it won’t work at all since del.icio.us will prevent the for-tag spam.)