Tim - 10:11 pm on Feb 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Outland,
I hear your frustration and I have been discussing this very issue within Yahoo of being more open and customer service oriented in relation to PI. With the new program you will have the choice of going direct to Overture or buying via a reseller.

In regards to being banned- I had a slide on this in my presentation at pubcon on how do you know if you are banned:
1)Slurp-si visits your robots.txt and doesn’t index your pages
2)You submit via Paid Inclusion and your URLs appear via a URL query but are deeply buried for a keyword query
3)You suddenly lose all your traffic overnight

Hope this helps.
Tim