The only problem I see with this letter is that there is no such company as
"Netscape". Dmoz is owned by AOL/Time Warner, the world's largest media
company.

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* Steve Thomas http://www.wherewithal.com/
* President & CEO The Future of Search
* Wherewithal.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kmslogic@... [mailto:kmslogic@...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: xodp@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [xodp] Letter to Department of Justice.
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> Regarding the "Open Directory Project" owned by Netscape, Inc.
>
> The open directory is the second most popular directory search engine
> available (the most popular is "Yahoo"). It is critical to
> businesses that wish to compete on the internet that their web sites
> be listed in this directory, but the Open Directory is not, in fact,
> open. It is controlled by a small group of people who dictate what
> you will and will not see in the directory—not based on any objective
> qualification but on this group's personal opinions. No reasons for
> rejection in the directory are ever sent, and even if a business
> owner's web site is of a higher quality or is regarded better than
> other similar entries in the directory there is no recourse, there is
> no way to modify a web site to gain acceptance in the directory.
>
> Because this directory is owned by Netscape, and advertises itself
> as "open", and because a listing in this directory has a serious
> financial impact on eCommerce web sites (certainly hundreds of
> millions of dollars if not more if they are *not* listed) I am
> bringing this matter to the Department of Justice's attention.
>
> The open directory project is located at www.dmoz.com and it provides
> listing information for several other huge companies including AOL.
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