There ARE real people at DMOZ!

I just received an email from an editor at DMOZ, the open source directory project. A listing on DMOZ is widely accepted as helping improve your rankings in Google natural search results. The email says;

"Thanks for suggesting that we list http://www.youressex.net within our directory. Sadly, it's not possible for us to evaluate the site without a logon and so it's been declined. If you suggest it again, please include logon details in the description like this [User, PW] They won't be published."


This must be the first time I've ever had any human contact with DMOZ let alone such a prompt review - I submitted the site on24/03/10 so that' approximately 1 month. The last site I got accepted took over 6 months! Plus of course some useful feedback about actually letting them got into the site, which is a little odd as they have accepted sister sites without asking for this. Must just be the views of different human editors.