Life After ODP Life After ODP Until or about until Wednesday April 26, 2000, I was a volunteer editor with Netscape's Open Directory Project , and I enjoyed...
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george_ruban@...
May 30, 2000 5:48 pm
There have been a couple of editors expelled from the ODP more for societal differences than actual poor editing. For some time now, I've been thinking about...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
May 30, 2000 7:13 pm
Response to GRuban GRuban wrote: There have been a couple of editors expelled from the ODP more for societal differences than actual poor editing. For some...
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xodp@egroups.com
May 31, 2000 7:41 pm
Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the xodp group: Let's try that again: Would you be willing to volunteer for a clone of ODP that would...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
May 31, 2000 7:49 pm
This is an anonymous poll. Only members can vote, and no one's identity will be known, not even to me. All this will do is give me a rough idea of how many...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
May 31, 2000 11:40 pm
Please see http://www.egroups.com/files/xodp/Grievances+Against+ODP.htm . Your comments and feedback are very much appreciated. Distribute as appropriate. ...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 2:57 am
Please see http://searchenginediscussion.com/ubb/Forum48/HTML/000007.html ....
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 3:01 am
Please see http://dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Reviews/Services/Web_Directories/Open_Directory_Project/ ....
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:37 am
Please see http://www.donotgo.com/godoz2.htm ....
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Tim Maroney
tim@...
Jun 1, 2000 6:13 am
I have collected here some comments on the issue of dismissal procedures that I had previously posted to ...
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gary@...
Jun 1, 2000 2:02 pm
Although I'm not a big fan of private message boards, I have decided to take David up on his offer to join this group. I will try my best to keep my input...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 2:58 pm
... Ah, but you see, you will no doubt be a source of entertainment here, as I will allow you to post anything that you want (absent serious threats of civil...
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Keith David Tyler
romulus@...
Jun 1, 2000 4:59 pm
I have to say that I'm more honored to be invited to the XODP discussion group than I would ever have been to be knighted with metadom. But I should begin my...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:15 pm
Please feel free to invite anyone who you think might be interested in joining this eGroup. I've already received quite a few names of XODP editors that I'm...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 1, 2000 9:45 pm
See http://topica.com/lists/wibdir/read/message.html?mid=1700862199&sort=d&start=0...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 3, 2000 1:18 am
... Update: My original post in the above-referenced Search Engine Discussion (SED) thread was an exact copy of the "copylefted" document found here at...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 3, 2000 4:03 am
See http://www.traffick.com/ (displays feature link to http://www.traffick.com/story/06-2000-xodp.asp )....
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 3, 2000 8:53 am
If you get a chance, please check out Hotrate. (See http://hotrate.com/referral.asp?ref=netesq .) It is a favorite destination of ODP expatriates. What I...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 3, 2000 9:19 am
Errata: One of the links above yields a 404 error. I this happens, try http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html ....
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gary@...
Jun 4, 2000 4:38 pm
As a Hotrate "expatriate" I suppose it falls to me to add some context to David's endorsement. I think, if you couldn't survive the gauntlet of imbeciles at...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 4, 2000 5:04 pm
... Hey, everybody! Michael Gold aka ODP Meta Editor goldm, aka owner of Detection.net [you know, the cool site listed in...
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A.E.G. Goodman
andrew@...
Jun 4, 2000 5:54 pm
I wonder if instead of trying to create an exhaustive directory around the volunteer concept (just another ODP)... if the model that makes the most sense is...
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relax@...
Jun 4, 2000 6:53 pm
It was not my intention to bombard notice boards across the Internet with tales of my removal from ODP. I intended one post on Search Engine Discussion, which...
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Ammon Johns
bk@...
Jun 5, 2000 4:46 am
I read carefully through the forums at SED and I think if you are truly looking for the reasons that you were dismissed from the ODP you need look no further...
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Andrew Goodman
andrew@...
Jun 5, 2000 5:18 am
When I first saw this "armed robbery" analogy used on SearchEngineDiscussion.com (a.k.a. dmoz editor types' hangout), I commented that it reflected on the...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 5, 2000 5:51 am
While editing a post for formatting earlier today, I received a second post from the same poster with detailed instructions asking me to edit the first one....
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:12 am
... Well, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!...
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Keith David Tyler
romulus@...
Jun 5, 2000 3:30 pm
... This is something that comes largely in part, I think, from the environment that existed in ODP when netesq and I began our editorships there. A lot of...
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David Prenatt
netesq@...
Jun 5, 2000 6:23 pm
See http://searchenginediscussion.com/ubb/Forum48/HTML/000009.html . Please allow me to state my public support for the right of Search Engine Discussion to...
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Keith David Tyler
romulus@...
Jun 6, 2000 12:41 am
Latest reports, considerately edited, quote George Ruban as saying: -> The directory as such really would appreciate some help. Remember, we're not -> doing...
