If a website is listed in ODP then a mail is sent
You may have gotten the impression from other posts that the answer is "no".
That's almost correct. Probably the best answer is "expletive-deleted no".
But WHY?
Just this. That site suggestion was kept until it's no longer needed. (Perhaps it's no longer needed because the site got listed. Perhaps it's no longer needed because there wasn't anything useful in the suggestion in the first place. That doesn't matter. What matters is: that suggestion has done all the good it's going to do. Otherwise, the editor could keep it for later use.)
If the site was listed, then an _honest_ site owner won't need notification.
This is an important point. The honest site owner is developing his site based on his plans (which have nothing to do with the Open Directory--they're about his business or hobby or personal interest, or perhaps some organization he is a member of.) He won't do anything different when the site is listed--wherever it's listed, whether it's the Open Directory or Yahoo or his town's BBB site, or some other hobbyist's link list page. That's what "integrity" means.
But the DISHONEST site owner NEEDS that information. As soon as the site gets enough visibility under some false pretense, he's going to change it--start publishing porn or affiliate spam or spyware--or something else so vicious that nobody would have given him a link if they'd known what he was up to. And he needs to know QUICKLY, because these websites don't last long (before people catch on). The more dishonest the site owner, the worse he needs to know exactly when his site is listed.
Now do you see why it makes editors really really nervous when people are really really pushy about exactly when their site is going to be listed?
And those are the GOOD suggestions. How about the other suggestions. Suppose you phrased your question like this: "Volunteer editors, I have made a suggestion that has a good chance of totally wasting your time, keeping you from finding some useful site, and hurting all the users of the Open Directory. And it's extremely important for me to know exactly when your time was wasted, because I want to ... do something else that will waste even more of your time. But I want to waste your time in the most efficient way--that is, I don't want to waste any of MY time unless it wastes even more of yours. But what I can't understand is this. WHY OH WHY won't you tell me when you've wasted your time on my suggestion, so I can immediately make it again?"
And if the suggestion is useless, that is the right way of asking the question.
But what possible answer can you expect?
