webdoctor - 5:24 pm on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Who actually has physical control and physical access to the editorial server

editors.dmoz.org currently resolves to 207.200.81.184, but when you do a reverse lookup on 207.200.81.184 you get editors.dmoz.aol.com. From this alone I'd assume the ODP hardware is very much part of AOL.

Would you let volunteers have sysadmin permissions on a server within in your corporation? Would you even let a volunteer inside your datacenter?

Is the ODP not a public service or charitable work of Netscape/AOL?

Could you give us a definition of true "public service or charitable work", please? :-)

For reference, [dmoz.org...] has PR8. I'd PAY to host dmoz.org if I could include one link on the homepage.

Who is actually writing or re-writing the editorial server code and determining configurations? The volunteers or someone on the corporate side?

My guess is "both". There's certainly volunteers testing the new setup, wouldn't be surprised if they're helping debug stuff. Quite a few talented people higher up on the volunteer side of things.