[Jos:]
>
> I like the Wikipedia article, or set of articles if it's the same
> one I was thinking of. I read one set a long time ago. Part of the
> reason that drew me here to this group.

The article to which I am referring can be found at <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project >. It has been an
on-again/off-again attractive nuisance for ODP's spin doctors, who have been
totally ineffective in their attempts to remove unflattering facts about ODP
from the article. Particularly worthy of note is the utter failure of the
bear-baiting techniques typically employed by ODP's spin doctors to induce a
breach of civility on the part of their critics.

Until now, I have drawn a clear and distinct boundary between my role as the
owner of the XODP Yahoo! eGroup and my role as a fringe member of the Wikipedia
community, but ODP Meta Editor kctipton recently started editing Wikipedia's
article on ODP and removed the link to the XODP Yahoo! eGroup. In response, I
reinstated the link and pointed out that there are some 2,000 posts here that
are ODP-related, and that there is additional ODP-related content in the links
and files sections. Moreover, I pointed out that during the last year of
relative quiet here, I have been contacted by no less than two high profile
attorneys as a potential expert witness in cases involving their clients who
have unresolved grievances against ODP -- this as a direct result of the
ODP-related content indexed here.

Given my druthers, I would rather let sleeping dogs lie, but then I realized
that there are quite a few interested parties who are totally unaware of the
fact that a Wikipedia article on ODP even exists and totally unaware of the fact
that ODP's spin doctors are hard at work trying to censor that article and
prevent a fair and full presentation of viewpoints critical of ODP.

My guess is that most people use XODP as a vehicle for moving on to life after
ODP and, after doing so, have no further interest in ODP. It is precisely this
sort of apathy to which ODP's spin doctors appeal, but I think that in this
particular instance they have seriously underestimated the ongoing disdain that
ODP's policies and procedures create among those whom ODP's oligarchical
collective has ignored, marginalized, disenfranchised, and cashiered.

Humbly Yours,

XODP Moderator netesq