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Old March 19th, 2003, 02:16 PM
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spam from DMOZ listing

I got a spam to my website's private email address and in the email the spammer claims to have gotten my email address from DMOZ. Does anyone know how that could be possible?

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Anybody who has submitted at least once to ODP knows that one of the fields in the submission form asks for an e-mail address. Submitters can leave it blank or fill in whatever they want, since it's not a requested field. Filling this field with a valid e-mail address could be useful if the editor decides to contact the submitter for whatever reason. Editors are generally not encouraged to contact submitters, but in some cases (i.e. sites having a password-protected area, where a direct contact with the submitter is needed to request a review password, URL change requests where the editor may ask the submitter to prove that the change is legit, etc.) this may happen. And of course, it's not to be considered SPAM.

This said, email addresses from the submission forms are viewable only by editors having editing privileges in the category where the site has been submitted and in the categories above, including editalls and metas.

Just notice that after having been listed in a category, anybody can take an email address from the public pages of the site and claim that the email address "was taken from DMOZ". No need to be an editor here, and of course ODP can't do anything against spammers launching e-mail harvester on listed websites.

OTOH, if someone gets spammed after submitting to the ODP, and thinks that the SPAM comes from an ODP editor, h/she is encouraged to contact a meta editor, sending a full copy (with header) of the mail.

If you think an editor has spammed you, feel therefore free to send me feedbach (please use the feedback form from my ODP profile, whose URL is listed in my profile here at SEOChat) and I'll be pleased to look into this issue.

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