LAST EDITED ON Feb-24-08 AT 06:46 AM (PST)
 
Well, it would appear that the answer is yes and no ;-(

I was able to create a page rather quickly. FYI, you do not need to create the account first. It will be created with the keywords that you enter at the top. If the account name is not available it will add some characters to the end.

Html is acceptable but there did seem to be some errors. I am not 100% sure that the pages are created correctly, however I was able to log into my account a little later (there seems to be a delay for whatever reason) and edit the html.

Was it worth the effort? Well with a little getting used to the script, it may be a fast and easy way to create Tin pages for backlinks. I need to try to figure out why the pages were not created correctly the first go round. If it was something that I did, I should be able to eliminate the problems. If it is something that the script does, that may make it worthless.

It does seem that a lot of problems that people were having with Pete's scripts have been eliminated with the newer scripts dropping the need for .NET. Again, it may be worth downloading the latest versions and testing them.

By comparison, I did also set up an account directly at Tripod/Lycos. I found this to definitely be slower as a lot more information is required. I suspect that Pete's software is entering all the (false) personal information when creating the account. If one wants to have a lot of accounts, this is a good thing.

I also found that when signing up manually, there are a LOT of special offer pages that one has to go thru in order to get to the page creation. I gave up part way thru that effort when I seemed to get stuck on having to choose a paid account. There seemed to be no way out of that loop. I could have spent more time trying to figure it out as I am sure there was a way out of that, but since this was just a test, I didn't bother. It certainly is possible that once a person understands the ins and outs of Tripod, they may be able to skip all the special offer pages and go directly to the page creation, however, I have never used them before and so I found the process tedious.

So in the final analysis I was able to create a page with Pete's software but did not do so with the manual approach due to the cumbersome effort required to reach that point. So Pete's software was faster.

My overall review would be that Pete's software is worth testing a little more as it MAY be a solution worth working with. As always, however, there are bumps in that road.

I would give it a cautious grade of B. If the errors that I encountered were just first time problems that can be eliminated It would get an A.

I hope this helps
Phil G