WW_Watcher - 4:38 pm on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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"Is the DMOZ Server Repair Delay Undermining the ODP's or AOL's Reputation?"

IMHO Should Read:
The DMOZ Server Repair Delay Is Re-Affirming The ODP's Reputation To AOL.

Total Incompetence, This is the difference between a professionally run organization, and an amateurishly run one. It is not acceptable for any organization the size of the ODP, no matter if it is a non-profit, volunteer, for-profit, or otherwise to not be able to recover from a hardware, or software error within hours max, not days, certainly not weeks.

"IF AOL/Netscape doesn't really want to support the ODP then what?"

Another case of a big company buying something they did not need, and there is no market to sell it, because it is nothing but an expense & yet everyone else uses it's content for profit, but them.

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WW_Watcher

Edited To Add:
webdoctor:
"IMHO all those people who think this kind of thing is easy should explain to us (in detail) how they would set up hardware and software to "do the ODP, but better". I would remind our readers that dmoz.org has an Alexa rank of 204. Think about the pageviews. Think about the simultaneous edits. Think about generating the RDF files from a database snapshot. Justify your answer. The best suggestion gets a bottle of bubbly from me :-) "

That might be the biggest part of the problem, people like me, do not do charity work for lost causes.

[edited by: WW_Watcher at 5:02 pm (utc) on Nov. 29, 2006]