Can an (uprocessed) submission be RETRACTED?

i.e., Is there a process for CANCELING/RETRACTING
a submission which has not yet been processed?

Thanks,

NOTE: I submitted the month ago (www.boke.com 1/6/03)

Doubtfull, apart from anything else, who would know that you [ the person asking for the site to be deleted] is the same person that submitted it in the first place, you'd have to go though some kind of proof with email back and forth, and I don't think anyone is going to do that.

Why don't you want it listed?

Why?

IN BRIEF:
Life is short. {serious smile} And it now appears
to me that inclusion in the directory may require
a resort to law. (Clearly, cancelling the submission
is preferable.)

AT LENGTH:
I have spent the past month on a study of directories
within the context of brand management.

One rather serious (and surprising) conclusion is
that protecting a brand (commercial or non-profit)
against willful miscategorization in a public directory
has a high probability of requiring litigation.

Class action suits are foreseeable.

SO: I would prefer not to spend time on this
(however interesting this new area of law may be),
but -- to be clear -- the meaning of a brand
(which has been achieved at great cost) may not
be damaged or otherwise changed at whim
without legal consequence.

Should the result of this submission process
be an inclusion which damages my brand,
my first step is to begin a dialogue with
google's legal (an PR) departments.
and appropriate journalists.

i.e., My study reveals wrongs that are actionable.

There is new case law here. I will make it if I have to,
but I have other things I'd rather use that time for.

BOTTOM LINE: If there is a way to cancel the submission
of www.boke.com, I would like to do that.
(Whether or not that can be done, there
is no need for a public response here.)

Jim Boke Tomlin
forensicpoetry@boke.com
www.boke.com

We are not Google and have no connection with them so we can't help you in this. I suggest you contact them directly, try going to their website.

FOR THE RECORD (then):
Is there -- or is there not -- a dmoz procedure for cancelling a submission?

I would like an answer by someone who knows
the official answer to that question -- rather than
a (reasoned) guess.

Surely, this should be public knowledge.

(As for google, I will be handling that with
phone calls, if that should ever become
necessary. That is not yet the case.)

There is -- and this is official -- no such process. There are:

(1) official place for forwarding legal mumbo-jumbo -- the offices of the legal beagles of AOL/TW.

(2) A site submittal process, which anyone may use to suggest that any site is -- or is not -- suitable for inclusion, based on its value for the surfer. (There is a bizarre and fallacious myth among malicious webmasters that this feature is solely for their benefit. It is not.)

(3) The capability of removing your site, thus causing its listings (if any) to be removed.

I can't imagine any legitimate purpose of the project or the community that one of these couldn't serve: of course, editors may always act on informal information in forums: but they are not required to act on anything except edicts from staff (which are rare, and pretty well limited to (1) injunctions to behave; (2) requirements to clean up their own abuse; (3) responding to legal requests vetted by the AOL/TW lawyers.) And the notion that webmasters could impose actions on editors is rather deeply depreciated in the community -- and the community attitude is periodically passionately defended by staff.

Is there -- or is there not -- a dmoz procedure for cancelling a submission?

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No, there isn't.
We don't list sites on request of webmasters.
Even if you didn't suggest the site it might be listed by one of our editors if we think it fits in the directory.
The editors decide if a site will be listed and where it will be listed.

If you don't want your site to be listed delete it completely. If your site is online anybody may link to it, including all directories and search engines. Nothing you can do to prevent that.

This discussion is censored and closed. You may NOT use OUR forum for legal posturing of any sort, for threats of any sort, or for attacking our right to free speech in any way. You just scored a trifecta.