yeah that is very true. october 2007 was when I started blogging and I used to daily steal articles from DI but it was around 20 days or so when Amit contacted me asking me to leave proper links or delete them!!!
i deleted few and updated links on few....later I had to shutdown that blog due to link fraud and switched to webtechlog.blogspot.com where I worked very hard for straight 7 months. It taught me many ifs and buts of blogging....
recently I shifted to wordpress ( http://www.nofullstop.com ) and I am feeling more or less like a professional blogger!!!
i am loving it...