soapystar - 9:24 pm on Sep 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

As far as ye olde basic recip campaign, that still seems to work.

agreed. Except for anyone trying to come out of a ban theres no apparent threshold, you just cant have one. So if the point of this thread is about unbanning then you simply cant 'get' links if you think the eyes on you.

What I am wondering is, is it normal for slurp to keep crawling the site aggressively even though they have a manual ban on the site?

yes its normal for them to crawl, but not agressively. The giveaway is normally the robots to actual pages ratio of crawling.