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Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> > Well, after a long delay, I finally heard back from the Yahoo!
> > Directory Support department, which I emailed asking why they seem to
> > be refusing to list nmh. All they sent me was a form-letter with the
> > same info I already read on their website. Feh.
> >
> > I wonder who the #2 web directory is out there, and what their
> > submission policies are. I seem to remember there being a site
> > called something like "OpenDirectory", started by folks fed up with
> > Yahoo!, that allows unfettered link submission. I don't remember the
> > exact name or URL, though...
>
> #2? I was going to suggest the #1 directory site
Well, I mean #1 in terms of popularity and renown. I doubt many would argue
that Yahoo! fails to fit that bill.
> when this Yahoo stuff
> came up but I think nmh is already listed there.
Yeah, they have both the defunct gatech.edu site (I think I'll ask them to
remove that, as an experiment to see how they respond compared to Yahoo!)
and the current mhost.com one.
> It's http://dmoz.org. (Directory Mozilla IIRC.)
Thanks. No wonder I couldn't remember the URL. I was remembering the "open
directory" part of "dmoz open directory project" but not the "moz(illa)" part.
> I always use it in preference to Yahoo which
> I find limited and out of date. Not surprising really if they have to
> pay people to maintain the index. dmoz.org's index is used by several
> other `web crawler' sites that like to have a directory available as
> well.
Thanks a lot for the pointer. I'll start using dmoz in preference to Yahoo!
as well, and will adjust my public Bookmarks page accordingly.
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