windharp - 5:02 am on Aug 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

If a submiter took the time to write a reply then I would enter into a conversation regarding how and why and see what could be done,

YOu seem to have been lucky yet. After a few of those, I had to disband the email account associated with my directory account due the volume of spam.

When you tell people "No, that kind of website won't be listed here ever, due to the following reasons: ..." they tend to disagree with you and your policy. Up to the point that you obviously subscribed to some 100 newsletters all of a sudden.

My tries tought me, that submitters of unlistable sites mostly fall in three categories
1) those that won't believe you anyway.
2) those that don't read what you write
3) those that change their website to the better, just to change them back after their site is listed

Among those I contacted I didn't have a single one even trying to understand the implications. Which lead to "reduce workload by not contacting in any form".