Dmoz Submission Email

Which one you use?

[web_india]

When you submit sites on behalf of your clients in dmoz, which email address you use in the submission form - theirs or yours ? And which one's better to use ?

If you input clients email, then maybe if, the editor (I know, it's very unlikely) sends an email to them, they might not know much about it or if I use mine, maybe I can be listed with dmoz as someone doing excessive submissions. Does it matter or not at all?

An odp editor here can tell what is required by dmoz guidelines in such a situation.
NFFC, with your good success ratio, you can also point out which one you do?

Members thoughts, please.

[tigger]

I've always put my email address, so far I've never received an email from Dmoz, but wouldn’t it be nice to get a an email confirming listing :)

[skibum]

For submissions I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever. OTOH if you want to get a listing changed it is probably best to put the email of the site owner in case the editor should want to confirm that the request did indeed come from or is on behalf of the site owner.

[caine]

Honesty is the best policy with the ODP.

Always worth having a genuine representative email of the commercial interest, whether you or whoever handles the webmastering of the site. ODP constantly changes, for many reasons.

[Ozdachs]

Whosever's e-mail is listed should be able to respond to questions. I have sent a few messages to the submitters when I could not tell from their sites if the company's personnel had the licenses required by a cat I edit. You would want the e-mail address entered to be to someone who could answer a question like those I have sent out.

As caine says, honesty is the best policy. I don't know of any penalty for someone submitting lots of sites as long as each site has valuable content. DMOZ wants to grow with quality sites and good submissions are extremely helpful. So, it's possible that a submission from a known e-mail address would be looked at with an expectation of quality if you were known to submit good sites. :) (It is unlikely that your submissions would all go to the same editor(s) so that your e-mail address would be recognized. However, my point is that your reputation could just as easily cause a favorable bias as an unfavorable one.)

Finally, DMOZ does not provide its editors with e-mail accounts, so you might not know that the e-mail was from an editor. My inquiring e-mails were sent from an unmarked Hotmail account.

[Beachboy]

There are (rare) occasions when an editor desires to contact someone at a submitted website, therefore the person who submitted the site should indicate his or her own email address.

[Quadrille]

I agree - I once wrote to a 'submitter', to advise against overdoing the deeplinks - he knew nothing about it, he said, and I believe him - because I later got abuse from his (ex) idiot agent, who hadn't told his client he was using spam tactics, risking the site being excluded.

I'd recommend being open all round, then the email (if any) will reach the person best placed to answer it - once or twice I've had thanks for my 'good' advice ... suppose that advice had never reached the person who could use it?