iSnare NEVER pays attention to the free option. However iSnare REALLY pays attention to the paid option. But you need 1 week to get approval for your articles.
I think isnare sucks. I've always used their paid option to get my articles distributed, and when it got to the point to where it was taking two weeks to get an article approved, they lost me. Ridiculous. If they want to stay in business then they are going to have to get some more people working for them so they can push things through a bit faster (no make that a LOT faster). Also, I have gotten no traffic through articles that have been submitted and distributed through them. Another thing I would point out is that these "hundreds" of groups that they have that they submit to. The majority of these groups are groups that have been created by isnare. These are yahoo groups and the like. Many of the groups have very few members and very low traffic. At best, isnare may help you build a few backlinks, but traffic, forget it.
Are you sure? these doesn't seem to be created by them but they are submitting to these groups. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce/ http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeReprintables http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/articles-network/ I am a member of those group and I am a member of the "isnare created group" which is only one group I suppose. Never the less you can submit to my site ^_^ see my sig!