do you receive an email when site is accepted or rejected?

Hi,
I have read about people getting emails when their site has been received by dmoz, or their site has been rejected. I have been trying to get my site in for two years with no luck, (and, just my luck, just found this forum tonight

.....so my questions is, do we get an email saying you received our request, and if so, and we don't, what do we do?

Thanks!
bellclocks

I have read about people getting emails when their site has been received by dmoz

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Whereever you heard that, it is wrong. DMOZ does not send out any automated mails regarding submissions and has never done so. See the FAQ (link at the top) for more information about submission status.

ok, now I know emails aren't sent, but what if I sent one?

Darn, I was hoping that email thing was a good thing.
I resubmitted my site tonight, then found these emails about people getting confirmation emails, and blogs about how editors will help you with your site submittal, I couldn't find any way to contact the editor so I sent an email to dmoz about the status of my submittal. Then I find this forum, that says 'don't ask anymore'. did i just blackball myself?

Thanks!

No, you've got to work much harder than that to get into blackball territory. Not to worry.

Editors are volunteers, they do what they choose to do. That may include contacting submitters, or reading e-mail from submitters without replying, or cowering behind e-mail spam filters. Editors who HAVE contacted submitters usually find out, pretty quickly, why it is not a good idea. So it doesn't happen very often at all -- perhaps once in a few thousand site reviews.

Of the kinds of e-mail prudence says not to reply to, questions about particular submittals are way atop the list.

So I can't say "it never happened and won't ever happen", but it is a "not until specially trained pigs glide a few feet before they plummet" situation.

The mindset is not "editors help you with your submittal" but "you help editors with your submittal -- and editors will do the rest of the work, however much is left, just like we do for all other sites." So when public help that might be generally useful, can be given, editors are more likely to consider it a way of improving a large class of submittals, and therefore an efficient way to improve the directory.

hutcheson,
thank you for responding.
looks like there is alot of great information here and look forward to making upgrades to my site and get the elusive inclusion to dmoz.

people getting confirmation emails

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You get a confirmation screen, maybe that was being misinterpreted.

blogs about how editors will help you with your site submittal

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Very occasionally in this forum or in the process of reviewing a site editors have spotted a site with real potential they would like to list but can't on a technicality or because there is a mistake. They may then make an unofficial suggestion. Cessation of status requests have pretty much stopped that happening here, and editors are unlikely to email such thing privately unless the editor is 100% sure they trust the submitter - maybe a hospital, school, charity, health centre. I have emailled government departments about errors on their sites.