panic - 4:30 pm on Apr 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

How is it "feedback" if it doesn't get back to the user?

It's not feedback, hence, the reason I put it in quotation marks. It's an editorial action, period.

In terms of editorial feedback, haven't gotten any recomnmendations/suggestions or anything either.

This particular division of Overture isn't a consulting firm. If reccomendations/suggestions is what you're looking for, there are plenty of search engine marketing firms that will do consulting for you.

No more personal interaction than inktomi, just slower.

Speak for yourself, buddy.

If the pages are manually being reviewed there must be a record of why sites are being rejected for internal records at PT or OV.

That's a given.

From Overtures point of view though..I guess that by not clarifying why sites are not being included fuels the "grey area" in terms of what is and is not acceptable in terms of SEO strategy.

Again, that's a given. If someone needs others to tell them that the keyword stuffing on their page is going to hurt them, or that having doorway pages is going to hurt them terribly in the long run, they probably should be more concerned with learning the fundamentals of search engine optimization.