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#996 was partly dealt with by another editor on 18 February. I've now finished off, thanks.

http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Classifieds/Free_Classifieds/

There are two EPage's listed. One of them is a gambling site.

should be removed

Under: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Classifieds/Free_Classifieds/

This is not an english site.

http://sasjas.com/show.php?cat=electronics

Dealt with #1000, thanks.

Re Internet Brothers - it might seem a bit odd, I grant you.

As you will know there are thousands of photographs of Lake Tahoe on the Net. We can guess that most will be either
1. on a site about Lake Tahoe or some locality around it that doesn't just contain pictures, so if we list it, it will go in another category, not Maps and Images. (Your site is like this.)
2. on a travel/tourism site that covers many places, that could be listed elsewhere.
3. on a personal site with lots of other holiday snaps and family information, that we might list in a Personal Home Page category.
4. on a photographer's site, as part of a wider portfolio, that again might be listed elsewhere.

So very few sites are likely to get listed under Maps and Images. A site simply of images of Lake Tahoe would fit there. So would a deep link to L.T. images from a site that is otherwise about something completely different.

Another editor dealt with #1002-3.

Thank You Jean Manco.
How did you find that Rockin Walt site. I thought I knew them all.

Changed and Worse than dead links

Forum:

Top: Sports: Softball: Fastpitch: Teams: High School

Andrean HS Softball link is now:

http://www.andreansoftball.com/

The Gavit Softball link was shut down and the domain it resided on was bought. Visiting (please don't click if you are not going to remove from the Directory) the link:

http://www.gavitsports.org/softball/

Is obviously NOT a softball site.

A link to a form to report broken links on the directory pages would be useful. The most obvious contact link at the bottom of the page is actually an ad for supercrawler.

Thank you.

#1007 dealt with, thanks.

The Gavit Softball link was removed from the Open Directory on 15/Jul/2004. It may still be visible on some of the directories that use our data and do not update frequently from us.

jobsfortruckers.com site doesn't come up (again)

In -
Top: Business: Transportation and Logistics: Trucking: Employment (63)
-
jobsfortruckers.com website does not respond.

Thanks,

Cheers for the spammers?

I found this web site to be the perfect example for spaming with hundreds of hidden keywords placed at the bottom of its index page in a grey rectangular:
http://www.admo-tours.com
. I also checked and it ranks No1 on in its category on all major search engines. How is that possible. I tought there are filters for such a brutal spam. It also has 4 multiple submissions in DMOZ.
1.Recreation: Motorcycles: Touring: Motorcycle Rentals and Tours
2.World: Deutsch: Freizeit: Motorrad: Reisen: Veranstalter
3.Regional: North America: United States: California: Travel and Tourism: Travel Services: Tour Operators
4.Recreation: Motorcycles: Touring: Motorcycle Rentals and Tours: Europe


Cheers for the spammers. Do they feel at home in DMOZ

#1009 dealt with, thank you.

#1010 - our rules are not the same as those of search engines. As it is impossible to spam a directory with hidden keywords, we don't usually pay any attention to them.

However in certain circumstances we might be concerned. If the visible content was very different from the hidden content, we might conclude that the site was simply a front. For example a page about a children's game that has hidden links to casinos. That would be a clue to look closely at the content. Probably it is not worth listing.

On admo-tours.com the hidden keywords are directly related to the business. If search engines are concerned about that kind of practice, then it is up to them to deal with it.

Multiple listings are permitted in the Open Directory in certain cases. A site can be listed once in a topical category and once in a regional one, if it fits in both. If the site has versions in more than one language, it can be listed under each of its languages.

Listing under
Recreation: Motorcycles: Touring: Motorcycle Rentals and Tours
AND
Recreation: Motorcycles: Touring: Motorcycle Rentals and Tours: Europe
would be inappropriate, but I cannot find a listing for this site under the latter.

#945 dealt with, thanks. Sorry this was missed earlier.
#966 was dealt with a few days ago by another editor.

Category http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/R/Ruskin,_John/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskin/default.htm
--> moved to http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskin/

http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/ruskin/ruskinov.html
--> moved to http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/ruskinov.html

#1014 - Thanks! The changes may not be visible for a while yet on the public side, but have been made.

www.praezisionsflug-deutschland.de

http://www.praezisionsflug-deutschland.de/
is listed in
http://dmoz.org/World/Deutsch/Sport/Fliegen/Motorflug/Präzisionsflug
but it's now a nasty redirect site full of gateway pages (over 4000 of them)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...land.de+"+www.praezisionsflug-deutschland.de"

Could someone remove it?

Thanks

reather

#1016 dealt with thanks.

abuse

Dear Sirs,

On http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Immigration/
you have http://www.valuevisas.org/
that completly changed the site into poor forum and I do not think it should be listed in this category.

Also http://www.immigrationassist.co.uk/ is no longer a website. They display hosting information.

And http://www.workpermit.com/ is the same website with
http://www.ukimmigration.com/ and same company.

And also you have http://www.gherson.com/ who managed to introduce
http://www.uk-immigration.net/
an inactive site

I hope that helps!

Regards,

maryando80

Misspellings

Here is a small list of some spelling errors that exist in the directory that I was able to quickly discover. Not huge numbers but might as well correct them anyway.

a. luxery - 3 instances

b. poeple - 2 (I can find only 1 now as well)

c. infromation - 2

d. gruop - 2

e. histroy - 2

f. bussiness - 7

g. centruy - 4

h. ecomony - 1

i. vareity - 2

j. goverment - 2

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k. appartment - 86 (Some in German, French but most in English)

l. aparrel - 1

m. comerce - 14 (Most in Spanish)

n. maintainance - 10 (A couple are in the title)

o. alchohol - 4

p. glossery - 8

q. statitics - 2

luxery - done
poeple - can only find one (and it's in url)
infromation - fixed
gruop - fixed
histroy - 1 fixed, K&T one requested fix
bussiness - fixed the English ones, have asked internally for other editors to look at those in other languages.

centruy - done
ecomony - done
vareity - done
goverment - looks like someone else fixed (can't find any)

appartment - skipped for now (reporting internally for some help from other editors to work through them all)

aparrel - done
comerce - done the English ones, reporting the others.
maintainance - done (bar where the title error appears to be reflected on the site)
alchohol - done
glossery - done most, requested K&T one
statitics - done

Thanks for highlighting all of these,

Andy