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birdstuff - 10:28 am on Feb 23, 2005 (gmt 0)
Simply not counting those links for ranking purposes wouldn't really be considered a penalty, just a filter IMO.
...However, the bit I don't understand, is that Google still seems to recognise his 36000 links - I thought they would have ignored them if they had penalised him for it