See: http://pub14.ezboard.com/ftraffickcommunityfrm21.showMessage?topicID=27.topic . Humbly Yours, XODP Moderator netesq...
David Prenatt
netesq@...
May 19, 2001 8:13 pm
617
Originally posted at ... Humbly Yours, XODP Moderator netesq...
David Prenatt
netesq@...
May 30, 2001 2:36 am
618
... Yes, that's true. It's probably because you continued attacking when told to chill it....
hitch-hiker@...
May 31, 2001 8:12 am
619
... Wherewithal decides they will make more money by selling their user data than building a directory? Make your prediction here. If you want to predict...
hitch-hiker@...
May 31, 2001 4:30 pm
620
Wow, I didn't stop laughing at this for at least ten minutes. Have you thought of a career in stand-up?...
Steve Thomas
steve@...
Jun 1, 2001 4:34 am
621
hitch-hiker@... is Staffan Vilcans. Here is his homepage, http://www.algonet.se/~rsm/. So Staffan, Why exactly are you going to such great lengths...
Dan Geiser
dgeiser@...
Jun 3, 2001 7:09 pm
622
I would like to clarify that, despite the misleading attribution below, I did not write "I simply challenged their limited intelligence," etc. That was written...
Tim Maroney
maroney@...
Jun 4, 2001 11:20 pm
623
... Do you enjoy cyberstalking or why do you think it's so important to tell everyone the URL of my personal homepage?...
hitch-hiker@...
Jun 5, 2001 7:09 pm
624
... well on my ... attribute such ... It is obvious to anyone who counts the > that that remark was done further back in this discussion....
hitch-hiker@...
Jun 5, 2001 7:09 pm
625
Sir, Since you took it upon yourself to start attacking members of the list and Tim Maroney referred to you as "my anonymous and insulting friend" I thought I...
Dan Geiser
dgeiser@...
Jun 6, 2001 2:32 am
626
Will ODP remain free, even in the hands of AOL? Yes. The staff have spoken finally. http://dmoz.org/socialcontract.html Will WhereWithOUT last? Let's see: -...
balladofjayne@...
Jun 6, 2001 9:12 pm
627
Check out this thread. The makings of another malcontent? http://searchengineforums.com/Forum31/HTML/000215.html...
Tom Mosley
strider7@...
Jun 15, 2001 4:49 pm
628
Regarding the "Open Directory Project" owned by Netscape, Inc. The open directory is the second most popular directory search engine available (the most...
kmslogic@...
Jul 5, 2001 11:44 pm
629
Hi, I'm still an active ODP editor, but I find it interesting to hear what people think 'on the other side'. So I hope it's okay for me to reply to your post -...
Ciaran Hamilton
ciaranha@...
Jul 6, 2001 6:52 pm
630
... include an email address. It sounds obvious, but... << Obviously, I meant to say "if you wish to have a higher chance of the editor being able to...
Ciaran Hamilton
ciaranha@...
Jul 6, 2001 6:52 pm
631
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. * ...
Steve Thomas
steve@...
Jul 7, 2001 5:20 pm
632
... reason, ... I'll clarify a few things about my particular situation... 1. I did suppy an email address the three times I submitted the site (about two...
kmslogic@...
Jul 7, 2001 5:21 pm
633
As a matter of fact, you should also point out that ODP is directly controlled by AOL/TW, not a "small group of people". Defacto, all editors work for them,...
Steve Thomas
steve@...
Jul 7, 2001 6:34 pm
634
... you're joking right? Ever heard of girl scout cookies? They generate millions of dollars in revenue and are sold by free labor too. Or hey, what about...
Shanti Reichlein
brigid23@...
Jul 8, 2001 12:57 am
635
Last I heard, AOL/Time Warner is not a non-profit organization. Perhaps they should call ODP the "Steve Case Lear Jet Fund" or something. * * Steve Thomas...
Steve Thomas
steve@...
Jul 8, 2001 2:26 am
636
... company as ... media ... Although there may be no such company as "Netscape", this is from the ODP information page... "The ODP is hosted and administered...
kmslogic@...
Jul 8, 2001 5:08 pm
637
Hey - Steve - I LIKE you and your brain. I'm a wherewithal editor - I'm going back to work more there. My site's suffering due to that friggin ODP. Wish we...
Kangley@...
Jul 9, 2001 12:47 pm
638
... Could you post some of these links? In the first ten pages of links from a Google search for "Open Directory Project", I found exactly one mild complaint...
Tim Maroney
tim@...
Jul 9, 2001 12:48 pm
639
... Right. It's the use of unpaid labor to generate revenue for a for-profit organization that is in apparent violation of USA labor laws. Non-profits have a...
Tim Maroney
tim@...
Jul 9, 2001 12:49 pm
640
... http://search.aol.com/cat.adp?id=8081&layer=&from=breadcrumb You see the 468x60 GIFs on the top and bottom of the page, and the big square one on the...
Steve Thomas
steve@...
Jul 9, 2001 5:27 pm
641
... The ones that say "Place an ad for AOL on your site and get $15"? Sure, I see them. You imagine that makes money? Welcome to 2001, Steve. You might ...
Tim Maroney
tim@...
Jul 10, 2001 6:43 am
642
Tim: <RANT> Yahoo alone will make over $500 million in online ads in the next four quarters. The overall market is at least $5 billion per year and is STILL ...
... "Yahoo alone" being the operative words. (Only AOL is even in the same revenue range, but for all their advertising revenue, they're not selling any...
Tim Maroney
tim@...
Jul 11, 2001 12:32 am
645
I think it's about time WWA stopped trying to blow a bunch of hot air attacking ODP when they've got their own "pile of stench" to clean up. Fact: WWA has...