irritated - 7:26 pm on Apr 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

If its just crawling your robots and index page, consider yourself banned.

If this IS the case it sure would be nice if they gave precise reasons why a site had been banned instead of canned responses.

Banning a site could easily cause irreparable damage to a company and to think the company had no way to defend themselves is sickening. Its clear to me that competitors can and do have a direct affect on our sites. The redirect/hijacking issue has convinced me of that.

Y! should contact each and every site they plan to ban. Innocent until proven guilty is a nice start - I have always worn a white hat, yet I have several sites that seem to be banned. I assure you its not of my doing, yet I am the one that suffers!