blend27 - 1:08 am on Nov 14, 2012 (gmt 0)

Google Guy posted that these notices were sent even if you did not have a penalty. See https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/gik49G9c5LU

FireFox Says
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at plus.google.com.

...then remembered that plus.google.com points to 127.0.0.1 in HOSTS file on local machine. almost had me there...