LewisPringle Posted May 2, 2005 Posted May 2, 2005 I would like to know the status of my dmoz submittals. I submitted http://www.RecordsForLiving.com to the category http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Healthcare/Computing/Software/Vendors/ because my company is a vendor of healthcare computing software. And - I submitted the URL http://www.RecordsForLiving.com/HealthFrame/ to the category http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Healthcare/Computing/Software/ because HealthFrame is healthcare computing software, and most of my products competitors are listed in this page. I also submitted the same (healthframe) url to http://www.dmoz.com/Health/Services/Health_Records_Services/ because HealthFrame is personal health record software, and again - many of the competing products to HealthFrame are listed under that category.
djdeeds Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 Waiting in http://dmoz.org/Business/Healthcare/Computing/Software/Vendors and http://dmoz.org/Health/Services/Health_Records_Services . Please do not submit further copies!
LewisPringle Posted May 3, 2005 Author Posted May 3, 2005 Thanks for the promt response. I'm not totally clear on what the status 'waiting' means for the http://dmoz.org/Business/Healthcare/Computing/Software/Vendors/ and http://dmoz.org/Health/Services/Health_Records_Services/ categories. And - you didn't mention anything about the http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Healthcare/Computing/Software/ category. I certainly understand your directive about not posting again. I did so only because the DMOZ's old guidelines - and suggestions I got for various folks around the web - were unclear or contradictory. I applogize - and will wait. Thanks, Lewis.
Meta hutcheson Posted May 3, 2005 Meta Posted May 3, 2005 Is English not your native language? We have editors who are fluent in a number of different languages: if you'd like to get an explanation in your language, just ask the question, and I'll move this thread to the appropriate other-language forum.
LewisPringle Posted May 3, 2005 Author Posted May 3, 2005 Mr. Hutcheson: No. English is my native language (though I also speak French and Portuguese). Your question appears disingenuous, and intended to be insulting and sarcastic. If I've misread you - perhaps English is not your native language ;-). The question I asked on May 2 was: 'I would like to know the status of my dmoz submittals.' The answer I received on May 2 from djdeeds was: 'Waiting in CATEGORY1 and CATEGORY2'. I certainly appreciate the promptness and directness of djdeeds reply. However - even for an English speaker - its brevity makes it quite ambiguous. In particular - though the direct object of 'waiting' appears to be category 1 and category 2, the subject is left quite unclear. Is the subject my request? Is the subject the already completed disposition of my request. Furthermore - I asked about 3 submittals, and djdeeds responded citing two of them. If he cited none - it might be inferred he was talking about all of them, but since he specifically cited two of the three, its unclear what he meant to say about the third. Thank you for your assistance. Lewis.
jimnoble Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 One submission would have been plenty and in accord with http://dmoz.org/add.html (which you acknowldeged you'd read and agreed on each occasion). I doubt if anybody will feel motivated enough to go chasing after your third one . Any multiple listings are at our option, not yours.
LewisPringle Posted May 3, 2005 Author Posted May 3, 2005 Mr. Jim Noble: I did read the http://dmoz.org/add.html file you referenced, and I certainly understand fully that listing a second, or third, or EVEN THE FIRST entry in your database is at your discretion (not mine). Still - searching through the DMOZ - its clear that lots of URLs (or sections of sites) are listed multiple times, in different logical categories. All of the submittals I did were for very logical reasonable places where one might find links to parts of my site (one was a list of healthcare software vendors and I listed my company there; and the other two were logical places where my product should be listed - BOTH of which contain most of my competitors products). Certainly - you are providing a free and valuable service - and I have no rights to complain about your decisions. Certainly there is enough in the way of caveats in your site to cover any decision you might make. I hope you think I've acted reasonably in trying to see my site placed in sensible dmoz categories. Thanks for your assistance, Lewis.
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