Linking to subdomain question?

[bpluva]

Does linking to subdomains help or hurt as far as search engines. I know that there aren't many subdomains in the top positions, so that probably answers my question but, Does anyone have any real experience?

subdomain
xxx.xxx.com

How about linking to external subdomains(other peoples) not within own network??

[jimmycooper]

This one does OK.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

[bpluva]

Holy shit. if only!

[pm2000]

It all depends on if the subdomains have any pr