problem updating a URL

Hello. The old URL (which is now invalid) was-

<old url>

and the new one (which is functioning) is-

<new url>

You can find the old listing, by entering "William Leonard Pickard" in the "Search" box on dmoz.org (it comes up first in the list of search results). The category of the listing is "Society: Issues: Health: Drugs: Illegal: War on Drugs". However, it does not show up among the 32 sites currently listed in this category-

http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Health/Drugs/Illegal/War_on_Drugs/

And if I click on the "update listing" link on the above page, then no matter what I enter in the "Site URL:" box on the subsequent page ("http://www.freepickard.org", "www.freepickard.org" "freepickard.org", "http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/", etc.), I get the error message, "URL Not Found!". Please advise- thanks.

It's a well known bug in our search which still shows URLs as being listed after they've been removed from the directory. The actual category is definitive.

Your old url was delisted almost a year ago by a robot when it became unavailable for a few weeks. That's standard operating procedure. Update requests only work for listed URLs but the time for that is long gone.

Please suggest the new URL to the category and somebody will process it in time. <added> I've left a note on the category. You need take no further action.

Thank you so much for your prompt reply to my question. The reason we're in this situation now is that I am not the one who set up the original site with the old URL, so this delisting happened long before I ever got involved with this (I was only brought in recently, to create the new site at the new URL. I was then asked to submit the new site to DMOZ, and that was when I discovered that thing with the old site that I had posted about.)

Anyway, I just checked, and I saw that everything is still the same as it was when I first looked into this (i.e. the old site is still showing up in the search, and the new site is not listed in the appropriate category.) I know this was a long holiday weekend so perhaps that's why it hasn't been addressed yet, but I was just wondering how long these sorts of things typically take to get addressed. Thanks again.

The next time some editor is processing that category, they'll see my note but we have no idea who or when that might be. That's the nature of an all volunteer operation.

Well, there's still no further progress as of today, but I guess I'm just going to have to be patient. Thanks again for your assistance with this, I appreciate it.