Why don't DMOZ send out email confirmations?

Hello Everyone.

This is my first post in the QoS section, so please excuse the question if your more experienced audience find it already addressed somewhere else.

The questions is Why don't DMOZ send out email confirmations. Please review this quote below from an editor regarding how long it takes to get listed on DMOZ:

pvgool said:

Because of the way DMOZ works we can not predict how long a site must "wait" after it has been suggested and an editor reviewing it. It might be a few days but it might also be several years. We can not predict when your (or any other site) will be reviewed. We also do not send any confirmations when a review is done, not when it is accepted and not when it is rejected.

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I researched this issue and am yet to find a single intelligent answer from any source of authority within DMOZ on why DMOZ as a "policy", do not use direct email confirmations for new submissions, status check, approval or even rejection of new listings.

It seems to me that simply refusing to use this proven workflow management technique escalates the burden put on the already limited production force that the editors bring to bear for the project. I don't feel it appropriate to list all the reasons why simply using email confirmations would help increase DMOZ operational efficiency and the public perception of DMOZ's QoS just yet. I would like the DMOZ team to help clarify the rationale guiding or necessitating this policy of no direct communication with website publishers.

Any comments and/or pointers to additional references on this topic is appreciated.

I don't feel it appropriate to list all the reasons why simply using email confirmations would help increase DMOZ operational efficiency

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Here we go
Oh, we can't think of any .

This isn't a website listing service and website owners are not our customers. Sending emails will thus add to our workload but with no benefit to us. This has been discussed innumerable time on this forum and we aren't about to do so again.

I'm closing this thread. Please don't open another one on the same topic.