tina
06-10-2006, 06:36 PM
Perhaps this may end up being a few random thoughts, however I am wondering what is the significance of requiring an email address with a link submission? What I am attempting to say with that comment is that the vast majority of link submission I receive have an email address of info@(the site's domain).
Now I realize that some of those may actually be truly monitored email addresses, however my assumptions are that most of them likely are not. So it's like, what's the point?
In the grand big picture, it's probably not all that important of a thing. However I've experienced several instances where I've needed to email someone who had made a submission. The reasons for sending these emails were always in the best interest of the individual making the submission. i.e. needed something modified in order for me to approve the link etc, and yet I've received a response back to any of the emails and the submission ended up being rejected.
I experienced something this morning which happened to spark my motivation to make this post. I was out submitting my own directory to a handful of other directories and happened upon one that required a link back if you were submitting a directory. No problem, I stopped there went back to my own directory and added a link for the one I was attempting to submit to.
This particular directory happened to be running that other popular directory script. I entered the location of the link in my directory to the reciprocal link box and it came back that the system could not find the link. I went back to my site and verified that indeed the link was there and tried again with the same results. My assumptions are it kept failing because the link on my site was not letter for letter exactly the same as the suggested link code, i.e my links have some style code in them etc. Finally I decided to choose the non-reciprocal link option and after five attempts to get the captcha code correct the link was accepted.
Anyway I thought I would email the directories owner and let he or she know of the troubles I experienced. Perhaps suggest the owner consider a better script such as eSyndicat. Not really, I would never be so condescending LOL. However I did want to let he or she know there was a problem.
So I went back to my email and my inbox contained a piece of mail from this particular site with the standard thanking me for my submission. However the email also stated the email was auto-generated and to please not reply to it. This is the email address I have for the site and apparently no way of contacting the sites owner. So that's that I suppose and it won't surprise me if I recieve a rejection notice in a few days for not providing a reciprocal link. At which time I'll likely end up removing this site from my directory.
I wondering how others deal with email addresses? Do people even care the addresses used in submissions are useless? I have given serious consideration to developing a mod for eSyndicat that would require a submitter to validate their email address. Would such an endeavor be worth the effort? Or would it simply tend to discourage submissions?
Sorry for the rant, however I am interested to hear what others think.
Be well,
Tina
Now I realize that some of those may actually be truly monitored email addresses, however my assumptions are that most of them likely are not. So it's like, what's the point?
In the grand big picture, it's probably not all that important of a thing. However I've experienced several instances where I've needed to email someone who had made a submission. The reasons for sending these emails were always in the best interest of the individual making the submission. i.e. needed something modified in order for me to approve the link etc, and yet I've received a response back to any of the emails and the submission ended up being rejected.
I experienced something this morning which happened to spark my motivation to make this post. I was out submitting my own directory to a handful of other directories and happened upon one that required a link back if you were submitting a directory. No problem, I stopped there went back to my own directory and added a link for the one I was attempting to submit to.
This particular directory happened to be running that other popular directory script. I entered the location of the link in my directory to the reciprocal link box and it came back that the system could not find the link. I went back to my site and verified that indeed the link was there and tried again with the same results. My assumptions are it kept failing because the link on my site was not letter for letter exactly the same as the suggested link code, i.e my links have some style code in them etc. Finally I decided to choose the non-reciprocal link option and after five attempts to get the captcha code correct the link was accepted.
Anyway I thought I would email the directories owner and let he or she know of the troubles I experienced. Perhaps suggest the owner consider a better script such as eSyndicat. Not really, I would never be so condescending LOL. However I did want to let he or she know there was a problem.
So I went back to my email and my inbox contained a piece of mail from this particular site with the standard thanking me for my submission. However the email also stated the email was auto-generated and to please not reply to it. This is the email address I have for the site and apparently no way of contacting the sites owner. So that's that I suppose and it won't surprise me if I recieve a rejection notice in a few days for not providing a reciprocal link. At which time I'll likely end up removing this site from my directory.
I wondering how others deal with email addresses? Do people even care the addresses used in submissions are useless? I have given serious consideration to developing a mod for eSyndicat that would require a submitter to validate their email address. Would such an endeavor be worth the effort? Or would it simply tend to discourage submissions?
Sorry for the rant, however I am interested to hear what others think.
Be well,
Tina