Why aren't penalized sites notified in Webmaster Tools?

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JP from Los Angeles, CA asks:

"When a site is penalized by Google, why isnt a message sent to the owner via Google Webmaster Tools telling them how/why it was penalized? Currently, site owners are left grasping in the dark trying to figure out what they did to cause a penalty."

Recorded on April 23, 2009.



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