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  • Stud Money
    So Fucking Banned
    • Sep 2003
    • 3214
    #1

    Dmoz Collecting Email Addresses

    Do you think they will be using these to send out spam at some point?

    How long has this been the case with them?
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    • JamesK
      hi
      • Jun 2002
      • 16731
      #2
      c'mon man, you know they wouldn't do this. it's just wrong
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        • Stud Money
          So Fucking Banned
          • Sep 2003
          • 3214
          #3
          Originally posted by Wildcard
          c'mon man, you know they wouldn't do this. it's just wrong
          So why collect them then

          DMOZ Editors have access to all submission information including the email addresses

          Time to apply to be a DMOZ editor i think

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            • WiredGuy
              Pounding Googlebot
              • Aug 2002
              • 34517
              #4
              Originally posted by Stud Money
              So why collect them then
              To contact site owners in case of a problem...
              WG
              I play with Google.

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                • Stud Money
                  So Fucking Banned
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 3214
                  #5
                  Originally posted by WiredGuy


                  To contact site owners in case of a problem...
                  WG
                  This is true but why collect them at all?

                  I remember some 3 months ago when i submitted to Dmoz not having to enter a valid email address.

                  Seems there is potentially more to this than meets the eye initially

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                    • SpaceAce
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 6493
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Stud Money


                      So why collect them then

                      DMOZ Editors have access to all submission information including the email addresses

                      Time to apply to be a DMOZ editor i think
                      "All" the information consists of your email address, the URL submitted and your IP. Not exactly a lot of sensitive information.

                      Editors are encouraged to contact site owners if something is wrong with a submission. Also, it isn't like there is some "harvest email addresses" button in the editor control panel. You'd have to go through thousands of individual submissions highlighting and CTRL-Cing email addresses.

                      SpaceAce

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                        • XxXotic
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jun 2002
                          • 8500
                          #7
                          no, its just to help prevent people from spamming the ODP which has become a very common occurance as of late, my mom is a meta editor there, i'll see what i can dig up on it
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                            • Justin L.A.
                              Confirmed User
                              • Oct 2003
                              • 116
                              #8
                              I was an ODP/DMOZ editor for quite some time. Biggest problem I had was webmasters would never send us a password to review their site. In order to be listed under membership sites the editor is supposed to look it over.

                              Personally, I never even kept a record of the submissions but the information is kept online for any editor to look at.
                              Justin
                              Admin @ Large
                              aka "Peggy"

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                                • Nezster
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Feb 2003
                                  • 2192
                                  #9
                                  DMOZ traffic rocks

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