theBear - 6:22 pm on Jul 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

"I suspect the truth lies in the middle ground ..."

Bingo.

Now as for issues about what is suspected of going on, I'd suggest that since somebody is hosting the directory that one should contact them with what would be considered evidence.

Dataguy by the use of my handy little calculator your directory will take more than 8 years to be as large as the ODP. I sure wouldn't want to check what's at the end of all those links on a regular basis.

Just for giggles last night I downloaded the current rdf dump and one from a year ago. I can't do a straight diff between them since it exceeds memory on my system, so I'll have to strip out the fluff or get more memory in order to really see the true extent of the change over the course of the last year.