OK here's my €0.02 (that's 2 cent NOT 2 cents):

Thinking about this, can we turn this on it's head and extract some
implied message about penalties.  Matt makes reference to using the re-
inclusion request.  We know the site in question isn't banned, but
perhaps under a penalty.

Now if there are no penalties other than a outright ban (as many have
argued here previously), why would Matt mention this?  And more
importantly (I believe), can we infer anything from the process for re-
inclusion?  My mind is beginning to wonder whether a penalty is a flag
which is reset by hand, or whether the crawler is sent back in to re-
evaluate the offending site? A flag might indicate a negative
weighting applied within the ranking algorythm (although, there is
nothing that precludes the latter from indicating this also).

Re-inclusion for a site that is included would have to indicate
artificial negative weighting of some description IMO.

Rgds
Richard

On May 11, 10:23 pm, JLH wrote: