hutcheson - 9:16 am on Jan 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

>Sadly, DMOZ' example for submitting a site does not contain the "www". (Last time I looked.)

<trying hard to think of a non-sarcastic response, and apologizing in advance for what will probably fail>

It's hard to know where to begin.

In my experience, the vast majority of domain names work fine without the "www.", and there are good reasons to prefer the simplest form of the URL that will work.

Then, based on the evidence, only a small minority of submitters read the policy, so it's hard to see that this is causing a great deal of turmoil in the DNS world. People type e-mail addresses, bare domain names without any protocol, type the protocol twice, omit the TLD, put site titles in that field, add subcategory and file names [also omitted from the DMOZ example for numerous very good reasons!], deduce correctly, all on their own that ".co.uk" and other non-".com" TLDs can be used even though the example doesn't show it ...

In a word, I wish the submittal policies were half as influential as you seem to think they are.

And I'm further puzzled as to why you should care about this. Anyone with ... OK, I won't go there ... should be able to figure out that YOU type YOUR URL in. Whatever it is. If you can't figure that out, then you really should put your mouse away before you hurt yourself. And if someone else can't figure that out, neither you nor the directory is harmed, your competitor simply gets a lower page rank.