joeduck - 9:36 pm on Nov 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

"what type of spam are you trying very hard not to look like today?"

Good discussion here and I think Shri and G1's are key points - seems to me the emphasis shifted around 2004 from giving many sites the benefit of the doubt to application of rules that penalized a lot OK sites in an effort to kill off the swelling numbers of junk sites.