NationalDirectory-WebSpider

[wilderness]

Has anybody seen this bot recenttly? (It appears to be basically a DMOZ clone, at least today.)
Or perhaps crawls from another range at Road Runner?

From 2001 & 2002 I have 24.210.xx.xx

Might anybody have an idea of what range they are currently using?
66.27.xx.xx.?

Thanks in advance

[volatilegx]

I haven't seen it in awhile that I can remember.

[Dave_A]

From what I have heard during the last few days

DMOZ has stopped updating new websites and it looks like they are having problems getting editors to keep editing websites to include into DMOZ.

[wilderness]

DMOZ has stopped updating new websites and it looks like they are having problems getting editors to keep editing websites to include into DMOZ.

I inquiried at least half a dozen times to be an editor and most went unanswered.

DMOZ has bigger problems than a lack of editors. This been going on at least five years.

I wouldn't do it today unless they paid me
Maybe? If they paid me good ;)

Don

[kevinpate]

Well poppycock and baldersash.

Many, tens of hundreds, even more than that actually, continue to gather and edit for free. Whether they can edit daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually, whatever, each participates to their ability, and somehow, even without whipcrackers, overlords, and in spite of the ill conceived threads that ODP is dead or dying or disfunctional, the directory somehow manages to continue to grow at an impressive clip. Maybe it's divine intervention, and maybe it's simply far more functional than some allow. I'd dwell on that possibility some more, but as Terri Clark said a few years ago, I've got better things to do. Sorry.

[Dave_A]

this is the link fo rnews about the DMOZ

Discontinuation of site status checks

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Following discussion by, and consensus of Moderators and Administrators of this forum, we have chosen to discontinue site status checks effective May 21, 2005. Closure of the existing Site Submission Status forums will happen by this date, and we will not be accepting any new status check threads after this time. The submission status forums will be archived.

There were a number of factors involved in making this decision, but probably the biggest was that these requests were always beyond the mission of this forum. The original mandate of this forum was to put a better light on the ODP by allowing the public to interact directly with the editors. At some point the submission status requests seem to have taken over and almost become the focus.

Our feedback indicates that the information we are giving out really is not a practical help in the vast majority of cases. People want information we either simply do not have or cannot for confidentiality reasons give out. Therefore, despite our communications, the existence of the status check forum raises unrealistic expectations, leading to more frustration but no satisfaction, for anyone.

We also found that a large number of people have regularly ignored the "rationing" policies set up, and this problem is getting worse. Much of the editors' time here is simply spent playing monitor, and that isn't productive for the editor whose basic mandate is really to be building a better ODP, not monitoring threads on Resource-Zone.

Participation on this forum is a volunteer activity beyond being an editor on the ODP, so the number of editors who participate here often fluctuates. Unfortunately, this means that when there are fewer editors who are active here they naturally feel obliged to do even more work than we should expect of volunteers who ought to be spending their time editing anyway.
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Last edited by donaldb : May 18, 2005 at 10:28 AM.