engine - 5:50 pm on Sep 19, 2000 (gmt 0)

I read this post carefully and recognise some aspects of the comments posted by rockintom.
The safest way for Ink to ensure a site is not "undesireable" is to release it into it's index in a slow and studious manner. The submissions appear to be the problem, not the pages indexed by it's spiders.
True, the spiders are visiting.
True, the pages in the index already are sticking.
True, the pages submitted recently have not stuck.

I've been watching site logs to see if the spidered pages are going to stick, but, as yet, i have no evidence for that.

I'm taking a longer term view to "getting indexed" and expect Ink to sort out this issue in due course, just as AV did after "Black Monday" last October. It took months for the wrinkles to be ironed out of AV's index. I think we can say AV is ok now.

There are other engines/directories in the competitive world out there. If all the engines/directories have the same problem at the same time then that is serious. Currently, that is not the case.
I'm focusing on the other engines and directories without losing sight of the Ink engine and it's importance.

Stay with it, until you get nothing from Ink - just don't spend so much time on it.