I think Google is doing the small guy a favor by CC'ing the hosting company - people without a lot of capital tend to host their site on shared domain servers. I had an experience with one site where somebody else on my shared domain was creating spam pages which resulted in a temporary delisting from Google for MY site as well (which I resolved) - as the white hat on a shared server with a potential blackhat Google's new policy sounds good to me.

As a side note, I have moved all of my sites that I care about to a dedicated server to avoid problems like this in the future.
Preston Wily | Homepage | 09.16.05 - 12:16 pm | #

There is ceratenly a problem in letting know the right persons the right informations, but I don't think this is the right way.
Zoran Savin | Homepage | 09.16.05 - 6:38 am | #

I think that we are not talking abot morale and ethical issues, that need a wider debate. But as far as Google is concerned I don't think that they are getting it right. If someone breaks their rules is one thing, but notify the webmaster is another. It smels like "notify and tkae down procedure" and google really is not the one who is to judge this. I don't know, perhaps they are getting to big?
Zoran Savin | Homepage | 09.16.05 - 6:33 am | #