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tdjames

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Hello, I have just searched through 6 new Recreational subcategories, I have found:

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Backpacking/

http://www.queenslandbackpackers.com.au/
This URL is dead.

http://www.budgetbritain.com
This is a redirect

http://www.etravel.org/home/
This website is inactive and in error.

http://www.traveljunkies.net/
This URL is dead. A Cpanel message states that no website is configured at the address.

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Backpacking/Tour_Operators/

http://www.brewersberlin.com/
Website moved to new URL

http://www.celticonnection.co.uk
Website redirect to new URL

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Trav...kpacking/Tour_Operators/Overland_Expeditions/

http://www.zanzibarmagic.com/
The title given is WAY too long. Also some of the title and description is not in English.

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Science/

http://www.geotours.com.ar/
The URL is dead.

http://www.holeinthesky.com/
The website is inactive and no longer available.

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Supernatural/

http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/hauntedtours/
The website is inactive.

http://historicjeffersonhotel.com/index.htm
The website is inactive and 404 Error.

http://www.nhpr.net
The URL is inactive and dead.

Category: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Specialty_Travel/Volunteering/

http://www.cholchol.org/es_index.php
This website is not in English.

http://home.earthlink.net/~crtp
Webpage is dead and not found

http://www.marinasia.com/
The webpage is inactive and the homepage is gone. Now showing the website’s internal directory of pages.

http://www.wildscapes-safaris.com.au/tprnews.htm
Website is dead and 404 Error.
 
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zombie

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andysands said:
Item #1570 now done :)

Item #1557 done - NB: Most of those webrings were working okay - you have to have adult content enabled on your webring profile in order to view them though.
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Oh that makes more sense seems odd there was that many.

/me wonders if he can remember his webring login ?

If they have adult stuff shouldn't they be in adult then?
 
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wbenzoni

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Broken/ dead links

From the following Directory

http://www.dmoz.com/Computers/Software/Accounting/Budgeting/

Dead Links (web site does not exist):
Accounting Technology Strategies
Black Wolf

Broken Link (page does not exist):
Lawson Insight

Redirects /duplicate listing:
Redirects to PROPHIX Panther Quinn Limited
Duplicate see Panther Quinn Limited redirection above PROPHIX


From the following Directory

http://dmoz.org/Business/Small_Business/Business_Plans/

Broken Link (page does not exist):
MIT Business Plan Resources
 
andysands

andysands

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zombie said:
Oh that makes more sense seems odd there was that many.

/me wonders if he can remember his webring login ?

If they have adult stuff shouldn't they be in adult then?
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There may be differences between what ODP classifies as adult content and what webring does.

Although I note that our adult guidelines:
http://dmoz.org/guidelines/adult/general.html
include the following as being adult content:

Sites which have sexually explicit personal advertisements or message boards
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So you may well have a point. I'll flag the category to our internal forums for someone with greater knowledge of that area to look at.
 
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glynos63

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Thank you all for your hard work to deal with my reports so far.

A reminder that I still haven't seen any action on #1385 (related posts are #1398, #1399, #1400, #1421, #1422) to deal with what I considered as "spammer". I can still see all its core travel listings online and I didn't find any update about your decision.

IMO having an internet company submitting many travel sites to ODP and advertise its sites' search engine placements is indicating that this company is well aware of ODP guidelines and should be considered a spammer.

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Something else I noticed:

After my report #1439 an editor changed the URL http://www.naturism-greece.com to http://www.west-crete.com/naturism-nudism-crete.htm at http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ . I think it was wrong as this is definitely not a travel guide for Greece. It's a local one for naturism in Crete so it should be deleted from that category.
 
jeanmanco

jeanmanco

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#1586 - I agree with you about the west-crete deep link, which I just removed before reading your post. (I was following up #1439).

re #1439 I cannot find that west-crete and sfakia-crete are of the same company. However the latter's deep links did need review, so thanks for pointing it out.
 
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perdue

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In Category: http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Yan/
Yan, Mingda
http://yanmd.ucsd.edu/
Doesn't have any content except an email address

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Yang/
Phillip Yang
http://phillipyang.com/
Is now a commercial site

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Yen/
Yen, Brigham
http://www.geocities.com/brighamyen
When you click on his intro page, you are redirected to http://www.la.com/

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Yong/
Yong, Catherine
http://www.geocities.com/catherineyong/
Is dead
Yong, Shali
http://yeahsweb.126.com/
Is only in Chinese (I think...apologies if I have the language wrong)

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Young/
Young, Dominic
http://www.wetfish.demon.co.uk/
Is dead
Young, Herb
http://onthego.50megs.com/
Has moved to: WWW.HerbYoungs.com
Young, Jonathan
http://www.jonathanyoung.org/
Isn't much of a page
Young, Mark
http://www.smegma.ic24.net/
Is dead

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/Yu/
Yu, Allen
http://www.stanford.edu/~callenyu/index.htm
Returns a 403 error

In Category:
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/Y/
Yagi, Kenjiro
http://www.geocities.com/kenji4861/
Is dead
Yakhnov, Dmitry & Elena
http://www.yakhnov.info/
Seems to be a commercial site? (the link to Personal Homepage doesn't go anywhere)
Yanos, Matt
http://www.geocities.com/glitchcog/
Links to matt.yanos.com which times out
Yarrows, Andrew J
http://users.javanet.com/~ayarrows/
Redirects to http://www.andynyc.com/
Yasaswy, Ravala
http://s87997766.onlinehome.us/
Is dead
Yerkes, Robert
http://www.yerkes.net/
Is dead
Yetman, Kevin
http://www.neaccess.net/~ryetman/
Is dead
Youm, Sangmyeong
http://www.mryoum.com/
Is dead
Youssefian, Arash
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/makaveli33/
Is dead
 
jeanmanco

jeanmanco

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#1583 dealt with now, thanks. The first site you mentioned is live, but needed review, so thanks for drawing attention to it. The content had clearly changed since it was listed.
 
jeanmanco

jeanmanco

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#1594 - I'm not sure that I agree with you. Mediterranean Traditional Mansions is a voluntary association. That's a bit different from a typical lodging guide. A quick look at the other two again suggests some ownership/control relationship with the properties. Perhaps another editor more familiar with the minefield of accommodation might disagree, but for the moment, I'm leaving things as they are.
 
jeanmanco

jeanmanco

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#1596 - I agree. It's been passed over to World. Actually it seems to be listed in Chinese Traditional already under a different URL.
 
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