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I assume you are refering to DMOZ and not your local newspaper? ;)
A month? Perhaps.
Its pretty vague and depends on whether your cat has an editor or not.
JOAT
Make sure you look in the cat where you submitted as the dmoz search function isn't updated for a while after a site is added to a category.
If 30 days have gone by, write a scathing letter to the editor about how they must be a competitor that's abusing their authority to keep you out of the directory. Threaten legal action if your site isn't added immediately with the exact title & description you requested, nay, demanded.
Oh wait, you wanted to actually get listed? I thought you didn't care about getting in :)
Disregard that last paragraph. Hmmm, maybe a short polite inquiry would have better results than the death threats that editors sometimes get.
And Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com].
rmjvol
For reasons best known to themselves, DMOZ do not let you know that a site has been reviewed and added/rejected. So lots of submitters like you worry about what is happening
If you go to this lot [resource-zone.com], you can ask the question as to whether your site is still in the queue. They will reply to you promptly (it will not expedate your review by an editor, but will reassure you that it is still waiting)
Dear Mr Spammer,
I've just deleted your hundreds of auto-submitted deeplinks, and mirrors. You know, the ones with keyword loaded titles and hype-filled descriptions. This note is just to let you know that as the queue is now empty, perhaps you might like to resubmit them all again, just to give me the chance to delete them all again.
That's why!
g1smd speaks the truth!
Now, I suppose the DMOZ programmers could implement a kill file -- so that if a spammy URL is resubmitted it is canned immediately.
But, even so, a DMOZ editor does not have a validated email address for the submitted website:
-- a submission does not need an email address;
-- if one is given, it isn't verified (aside...perhaps it should be: that could slow spam submissions);
-- It isn't safe to reply to postmaster@domain.tld -- think of a submision from a Geocities' site.
Dear Mr Spammer, etc
Not a very convincing arguement :)
I didn't say that it is the only reason; but it is surely one of the reasons.
As correctly stated, another is that submissions don't always have an email address, or sometimes have an address with a typo or which no longer exists.
In any case, if some kindly surfer submits a favourite hobby site, should we write back to the submitter or to the site owner?
The ODP servers have enough to cope with, without additional overhead of sending out thousands of emails per day.
[My Opinion]
...the DMOZ programmers ...
I think that should be "the DMOZ programmer"
The ODP servers have enough to cope with, without additional overhead of sending out thousands of emails per day
Not a convincing arguement.
Back in the "good old days" when Yahoo added sites for free, the nice people at Yahoo managed to send me an email each time they added a site of mine.
I think that should be "the DMOZ programmer"
How very true.
Very perspective of you to draw this to the forum's attention - not many people know that they only have the one :)
