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ZaagTand Newbie

ZaagTand

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Now this is a very strange site in dmoz. I think it a sort of keyword spam site.

 

Harry's Greece Travel Guide

http://www.harrys-athens-greece-guide.com/ found in

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

 

And this one

Aegen

http://www.agn.gr/ found in

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

 

Heliotropion (Under construction)

http://heliotropion.com/

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

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jonnyy Newbie

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Hi.

 

The url weddings.co.uk appears in the following 4 cats but the site has not been updated for about 5 or 6 years(there's a competition with a closing date of July 2000 and a catalogue dated 2000) and has lots of dead links, missing pictures etc.

 

Weddings.co.uk - Includes a UK services directory for everything from bridal wear to cakes, cars to honeymoons. Provides discussion forums to discuss bridal matters.

-- http://www.weddings.co.uk Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Event Planning: Weddings: Guides and Directories

 

East of England Executive Chauffeurs - Chauffeurs and wedding car hire.

-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/carhire/eastengl.htm Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Cambridgeshire: Peterborough: Transport

 

Wedding Customs and Superstitions - Interesting information regarding wedding customs and superstitions.

-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm Society: Relationships: Weddings: Help and Advice

 

Wedding Customs and Superstitions - Wedding customs and superstitions from the UK.

-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm Society: Folklore: Literature: Superstitions

seanthesheepuk Newbie

seanthesheepuk

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I think this is duplication and should not be allowed.

 

# Harlequin Japanese & Magpie At Pet Planet - Information on Harlequin Japanese or Magpie rabbit.

-- http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet..._Harlequin.htm Recreation: Pets: Rabbits: Breeds: Harlequin (1)

 

# Belgian Hare at Pet Planet - Information on small animal breed societies and local breed society details of the Belgian Hare.

-- http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet...lgian_Hare.htm Recreation: Pets: Rabbits: Breeds: Belgian Hare (1)

seanthesheepuk Newbie

seanthesheepuk

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I think this link is in the wrong section?

 

PetPlanet.co.uk - Interactive vet advice, local pet services database, breed selector, pet travel information and an online shop.

-- http://www.petplanet.co.uk/ Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Recreation and Sports: Pets (1)

 

It already exists in

 

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Pets/

 

A bit spammy if you want my biased opinion!

kevin_svek Newbie

kevin_svek

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Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/Carmarthenshire/Carmarthen/Travel_and_Tourism/

 

Ty Penbryn http://www.ty-penbryn-wales.co.uk/ - This domain name has been successfully registered on behalf of a client by 123-reg.

 

Also

 

/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/Carmarthenshire/Ammanford/Business_and_Economy/

Beauty Spot Cosmetics - address shows as Barnet - Herts which didn't used to be part of ammanford

 

/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/Carmarthenshire/Llandeilo/Travel_and_Tourism/

Grove Hill http://www.grovehillbb.com/ Domain expired

 

Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Clothing/Womenswear/

 

Chixwear http://www.chixwear.co.uk redirects to http://www.constanceeyre.co.uk

 

Constance Eyre has their own entry

 

 

http://www.klass.co.uk/ returns temporarily unavailable (don't know how temporary that is though but it's been down for at least the past two weeks.

jeanmanco Newbie

jeanmanco

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#2280 : These listings are both deep links from the same site, but each is about a different breed. So it's not a duplication. Deep links are permitted at the editor's discretion. Presumably the editor felt that these were both useful additions to somewhat thinly-populated categories.
eyecon Newbie

eyecon

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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists/

 

Better Ethics Online - Publishes black list of spammers and seeks to promote online ethics.

http://free.hostdepartment.com/b/beonline/better-ethics-online/

 

This blacklist hasn't been updated for at least three years. A list of sender addresses is questionable to begin with; An old list makes it entirely useless.

 

Several links from the home page do not resolve (404) including "What is BEO" and "How to Become a Member/"

eyecon Newbie

eyecon

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http://dmoz.org/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Computer_and_Technology_Law/Internet/Unsolicited_Email/

 

I THINK that CAUCE.org gave up the ghost. It was dead for several months, came back in January and no longer resolves (except to a page indicating "unable to select database"). I subscribe to the RSS feed which crapped out about ten days ago.

 

Coalition Against Unsolicited Email - Working to advance legislation to curtail unsolicited commercial email. http://www.cauce.org/

 

Also listed here:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Organizations/

eyecon Newbie

eyecon

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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Organizations/

 

Freedom's Army - Organization working to eliminate blocking of a particular netblock.

http://www.freedomsarmy.org/

 

Years ago, this was the anti-balcklist site of the DHS Club (a significant spewer of UCE). They gave up spamming a couple of years ago and the site's content is no longer associated, in any way, with anything to do with spam. The current contents are limited to:

 

"Freedom's Army Mission: To promote the principles of Freedom and Democracy that are embraced within the US Constitution."

 

"The Liberation Of Iraq"

 

"The Sentencing Of The Shoe Bomber"

 

"The Real Reason We Have A Thanksgiving Holiday"

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Callimachus Newbie

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re 2287

 

Looks like there is a problem on the CAUCE server. Their national affiliates seem to still be operational.

ODP Editor callimachus

Any opinions expressed are my own, and do not represent an official opinion or communication from the ODP.

Private messages asking for submission status or preferential treatment will be ignored.

eyecon Newbie

eyecon

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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Articles/

 

Al Iverson's Spamresource.com - Collection of articles written by a former employee of MAPS. http://www.spamresource.com/ DEAD

Al is alive and well (a NANABL moderator) but the site is history.

 

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Why Spam Is Bad - A collection of links to help show Internet marketers why spam is harmful to their business and to provide some alternative means of responsible marketing.

http://www.whyspamisbad.com/

 

At the risk of depicting my anal tendencies, there is a minor copyright violation. They are using Redhat, Inc.'s favicon.ico and logo which displays in the browser's address bar.

 

Beyond that, the site is a collection of six links to external content. There is NO unique or original content on this site and the following links (67% of the content), from the site, are broken:

 

Why spam can't possibly work

The Evils of Spam

How do I fix my open relay?

Another look at responsible, ethical email marketing

eyecon Newbie

eyecon

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Looks like there is a problem on the CAUCE server. Their national affiliates seem to still be operational.

 

CAUCE is using Drupal CMS, a PHP suite that interfaces with MySQL. Apparently, this is a MySQL problem.

 

I fully support CAUCE. AFAIK, this has been malfunctioning for more than a week. At what point does a continuing server malfunction become a reason for removal?

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