Not sure if that's true or not.
Anyway, only the Google Search Engine ignores links with no follow attribute.
There is no evidence that other search engines (MSN Live Search or Yahoo Search) take into account the no follow attribute.
Therefore, if the links won't help you with Google, they might still help you with other search engines.
Google isn't the only search engine that you should be aiming for.

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