About multiple submissions

Hi!

I tried to post our web site www.crescendo.com, a 15 year old business specializing in digital dictation, speech recognition - in partnership with Philips - and transcription for the healthcare and legal sectors. Since most of our competitors are listed in the category Speech Technology - Medical Transcription, so did we submit our site there. Our first attempt was back in July 2004, and nothing has happened since then. Our mistake is that we submitted the site more than once, then only found out recently that this we weren't supposed to do this...Does this mean our site has been excluded from the entire DMOZ Directory for good? How can we "repair" our mistake, if any chance?

Hope this makes sense and that somebody can help me...

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Claire, Manager

If you have repeatedly submitted to the same category, there is little harm, since latter suggestions simply overwrite earlier suggestions, eliminating any record of them.

Not to worry, at worst you may or may not have delayed when an editor will look at the suggestion (if the editor sorts suggestions by suugestion date). But in all probably your additional submissions will have no real effect.

You should, however, not make any more suggestions.

I only tried to submit it once in the upper category being Speech Technology. Would this exclude us?
Or maybe our site was simply rejected, but then I don't understand why because it seemd to me that our site follows all the guidelines...

More likely it hasn't been reviewed yet. (The editors may have been working somewhere else.)

We do reserve the right to exclude viciously submitted sites, but it is a last resort. If you haven't shotgunned every page of the site, or machine-gunned a dozen categories, or attempted to infiltrate alias domain names, or threatened editors -- and you've stopped whatever peccadillos you had committed -- then rejection for that reason is pretty unlikely.

My experience is that people who worry about having abused beyond the limit, generally haven't -- and vice versa.