status www.dial800.com

It was submitted to

Primary Cat: http://dmoz.org/Business/Telecommunications/Communications_Providers/Long_Distance_Calling/Toll_Free_Numbers/

Regional Cat: http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Counties/Los_Angeles/Business_and_Economy/

It was submitted as
URL: www.dial800.com
Title: Dial 800 Communications
Description: Toll free 800 vanity numbers and enhanced tollfree call routing telephone services for businesses licensed exclusively by market. Corresponding domain names.

Note: I'm aware that there is both "toll free" and "tollfree" in the description. This is intentional since both variant spellings are commonly used.

The site is not waiting for review in http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Counties/Los_Angeles/Business_and_Economy and I don't see any indication that it ever was. That doesn't matter, though, because the site doesn't belong at that level. If you have a physical location that people can visit, then you might get listed in the /editors/editcat.cgi?cat=Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/B/Beverly_Hills/Business_and_Economy]Beverly Hills category.

The site is waiting for review in http://dmoz.org/Business/Telecommunications/Communications_Providers/Long_Distance_Calling/Toll_Free_Numbers/ (looks like you just submitted it today). You can come back to this thread in a calendar month or more to check back up on it.

Note: I'm aware that there is both "toll free" and "tollfree" in the description. This is intentional since both variant spellings are commonly used.

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That's quite alright as I'm sure the editor reviewing it will remove both occurrences of the phrase since it repeats the category name.

[the following comments are as a user: I don't know if you care about this or not but most of the pages on the site don't render well at all in IE on a Mac (there's no visible text content and useless scroll bars in the strangest places -- only the contact, resources, and tools pages render properly). You also might want to rething the scrolling list of clients or at least the speed of it -- it's really distracting and almost makes you car sick.]

There is an office in Beverly Hills but it isn't used so much as a "storefront". Their clientele are nationwide, typically the kind of companies that do radio advertising and need/want a memorable vanity phone number that won't require a driver to stop to get a pen. They do almost everything by phone.

I submitted the site in early April and again today, as more than 6 weeks had passed.

Thank you VERY much about the Mac-user's experience. There is a Flash-less version that doesn't have the scrolling graphics. I wish there was a browser that would emulate what a Mac user sees. I'll bring this to the owner's attention.

I didn't make the site. It was created by developers for a friend. I'm not a fan of perpetual motion on a website, either... unless it's for a function like a game.

As you recommend, I will check back in a month.

Thank you again for your guidance.

>>There is an office in Beverly Hills but it isn't used so much as a "storefront". Their clientele are nationwide, typically the kind of companies that do radio advertising and need/want a memorable vanity phone number that won't require a driver to stop to get a pen. They do almost everything by phone.

It may not be eligible for a listing in Regional, then.

BTW my comments about the site apply to both the Flash version and the non-Flash version, with the exception of the clients list (which is only in the Flash version, though the non-Flash clients list suffers from similars problems to the rest of the site).

Just following up. Site is still not listed.

Please read the notice at the haed of this board - right now we can not answer status requests.

Just following up. Thanks.

Still waiting with about 3 dozen others.

I have no idea how long "3 dozen others" takes. When should I check back?

In "real-world" reality, 3 dozen sites don't take that long to review.

In "ODP-world" reality, 3 dozen sites could take a couple of hours or a couple of months.

It all depends on when an editor with privileges decides to edit that particular category, and how he/she decides to take the order of the sites waiting.

According to the guidelines of this forum, please leave at least a month between update requests.

Just following up on status. Thanks. - bouquet of flowers.

It's hanging around with 2 dozen others still.

Your site was listed this morning. It will not appear immediately, but it will be in the next RDF dump and when http://dmoz.org is updated again, it should be listed.

THANK YOU!!!

I can see it now among the listings on

http://dmoz.org/Business/Telecommunications/Communications_Providers/Long_Distance_Calling/Toll_Free_Numbers/

but when I search for "dial 800" or "vanity numbers" or even "dial800", it doesn't come up. Does it take a little longer to get into DMOZ's search database

And is there any explanation for the use of "toll free" versus "toll-free" versus "tollfree" in the listings in this category

Yes, the search database is lagging behind somewhat. Hang in there, it will update automatically soon (although we don't know when).

As for the variations of 'tollfree', I'm sure this isn't intentional but fixing them is not something that we'd see as important.

[Edit: Darn Neil being faster than me. But he started with a very short posting and edited it to contain all the information. That is cheating! ]

If you have a look at the bottom of the search results you will notice the following line:
"Search database last updated on: Thu Aug 14 16:46:03 EDT 2003 "

Selfexplanatory, isn't it?

And is there any explanation for the use of "toll free" versus "toll-free" versus "tollfree" in the listings in this category

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Do we need to? English is not my first language but as long as none of the versions if wrong, I don't see any need to change anything.