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Sticky mail me for the URL...
Seriously, I tried the link the other day and it was filled with pop ups and I couldn't even use the search function. I have no idea what happened but thought you'd be interested in knowing about it.
Mysterious things happen.
I have no idea what could be the reason...but I have many hundreds of domains, and many thousands of hits, and no reports of any incidents on my server.
You might run ad-aware for spyware on your computer...I have had strange things happen because of people putting stealth programs on sites. To the extent where I thought I was going crazy. I did searches on Google that had pop-ups, and it turned out to be a Google clone that had been inserted as my home page!
My server has been running flawlessly for years and I keep a close watch on it.
Now, back to the subject of DMOZ.
Again, I would point out to those that think it is NO big thing that Netscape would take four months to update its resource for Data Users...The social contract and purpose in being for DMOZ is to provide a resource to it's Data Users. They state that Data Users are their FIRST PRIORITY. Based upon that Social Contract many hundreds of business models have been made in reliance upon it happening.
The DMOZ model is in reliance upon Data Users advertising through the attribution...Netscapes lawyers will get very nasty if you do not. Their failure to perform is appalling and indefencable. Unlike editors who can be and will be, cut off without even a word for speaking their mind...Data Users can not be fired. We may never be listed in the directory, but one does what one does.
I, for one, have concluded that if GOD came down and wrote code for me in stone...my sites would NEVER be included.
It is quite interesting to speak out and see the responses of those who can not agree, out of fear of being excised from DMOZ. Or, those who fear losing their listings though spite. Is it just me, or does anyone else see the rot eating away at the apple?
The ODP software had a rather large change, involving the format of just about every field in every database. Sort of like ... well, if you aren't an engineer or a programmer, it's not sorta like anything you've ever worked on. But, perhaps, sort of like replacing every rivet in the Brooklyn Bridge with a metric-sized bolt while keeping the traffic rate normal.
Anyone with experience in such matters would know what to expect. Every now and then a car falls through the decking, and then traffic backs up in the other lanes.
Is that serious? Well, you might think so. But if your job is to replace rivets in the NEXT stretch of decking, do you go up and gawk at the hole, or do you keep replacing rivets?
What you are hearing is the editors NOT gawking: NOT obsessing over what is out of their control, and will be moot in (at worst) a few weeks: they just keep replacing rivets. And, when the replacement decking is installed, the next 100 feet of roadway will be already done.
As for "rot", gawking would have been a major sign of rot. Continuing to work in full faith that the problem will be fixed, is a sign of health. And the change itself was made to keep the ODP current with standards: a laudable goal, NECESSARY to avoid a different kind of rot: "standards rot."
This search will allow you to search the contents of DMOZ (provided as a curtesy by BBSorg.com Directory)
(Not sure of spelling? Use first letters and * such as abc* or abcd* or abcde*)
Who's "Not sure of spelling?"
"curtesy" is spelled "courtesy"
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Now you know why I need spelling aids.
Has anyone discovered what has become of the RDF Dump that only had 11 errors a month ago? Perhaps Netscape should recruit 5,000 monkeys to pound on keyboards...it might be faster.
Once upon a time I programmed 360 IBM computers for IBM (they were about the first without vacuum tubes). Used a language called RPG (report generator). I spent years designing systems for progammers to code. When I went to work for IBM all we had was 402 and 407 accounting machines, card processors, programmed by hand wiring plug boards. We did have a computer with vacuum tubes...but they wouldn't let me near it. Needless to say I am a relic.
My Grandchildren often correct my spelling for me and soon my Great-Grandchildren will, I send them a monthly allowance for such things. But, when you reach my age...time is so short one hates to waste it looking in a book for a word you can't spell and can't find in the book because you can't spell. It is hell when you spent your life hiring smart people at low wages to do such mundane things, and suddenly you have to do them for yourself.
The most difficult thing in life is to watch someone do something wrongly, that you are expert in doing....and remain silent.
