moftary - 5:50 am on Aug 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have some good news for you. If your sites were banned from the index for spamming you would never receive the reply that the matter has been forwarded to their engineers.

Not true; I have five banned directories, contacted google regarding each one of them separetedly and received the "we will forward this to an engineer" response. Not even a single site got back to google, even after their engineers have done the manual review.