wilderness - 5:56 pm on Dec 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

In the past there has not been any penalty by the major SE's if your website was North American-based and access was denied to same SE's from non-NA IP's.

I'm curious to know if the reverse is true?

If your website is either RIPE or APNIC based and you denied access to North American-based-major-SE's while allowing their bots to spider from their perspective RIPE or APNIC ranges?
Anybody have any insight on this?