Is MSN still crawling banned sites?

[Marcia]

If a site's banned, why would they bother. Does anyone know if they continue crawling afterward and for how long?

[tigertom]

- Got banned recently;
- Bots stopped (or seemed to);
- Researched problem;
- Did a re-inclussion request, contacted webspam team, used the MSN 'add a site' URL,
joined MSN AdCenter(?) thingy (their version of Adwords), Hid 301 redirects from MSNbot;
- Site now being re-spidered, about 4 pages daily, mostly same ones;
- Another poster here said it could be months before re-inclusion.

Use this info at your own risk. I won't know if it worked until late February, early March, I reckon.
Not holding my breath.