ODP License Violation

fredr · Dec 9, 2005

Hello Editors,

I am referring to this issue in your archive:

http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1629&page=2&highlight=CHEF2CHEF

On March 7,2005 our site was delisted for an ODP license violation

We corrected that violation forthwith on March 8, 2005 and posted that in the above thread.

Nine months have gone and our listing remains inactive.

Is delisting a penalty for the life of a site, a year or some other duration?

Thanks for in advance for your time

Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net

hutcheson · Dec 9, 2005

There aren't any durations. When an editor next works in that area, the site will be available for review (as if it had never been reviewed before), along with all other sites that the editor can find (through Google or site submittals or whatever). We don't know which sites will be reviewed first.

So this time interval, like all others in "volunteer time zones," is indeterminate.

fredr · Dec 9, 2005

Thanks for the quick response.

I suppose it's good news and bad news. The good is that there is not a "for life" delist. The bad is that your viewers continue to miss the 2 million pages of unique content we provide to foodservice professionals.

Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net

spectregunner · Dec 9, 2005

2 million pages of unique content

Interesting. Just out of curiosity, how do you define unique content?

fredr · Dec 9, 2005

That's easy

Content contributed by 500k visitors each month, such as forum posts, job posts, resumes, culinary schools, press releases, editorials, foodservice classifieds, food events, chef services, chef blogs, restaurant reviews, thousands of recipes and plenty more. That's as unique as can be.

The list: http://chef2chef.net/content.htm

Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net

spectregunner · Dec 9, 2005

Excellent, now don't get you hopes up if you see an ODP visit tonight in your logs -- I don't edit in that part of the directory but you have piqued my interst.

fredr · Dec 9, 2005

Thank you.

Fred

lmocr · Dec 9, 2005

I'm going to try a couple of those pork tenderloin recipes I saw in the forum - but I don't edit where this site would go either

fredr · Dec 10, 2005

Bon Appétit! Glad to see some DMOZ traffic coming our way

Fred

monayuki · Dec 10, 2005

You have nice recipes to share. I already copied 1 for dinner tonight.

fredr · Dec 10, 2005

My goodness, thank you. It's really the chefs that share and the kudos (and attribution

goes to them. They vote for what they think are the best submissions here: http://chef2chef.net/rank/top-recipes-1.htm - Some real gems in there...

Fred

DesertJules · Dec 10, 2005

Looks like you are going to have a great deal of activity from us. I don't edit where your site could be listed, either.

However, my son is a culinary student. Your website has some great resources and information that I didn't even know we'd need before he graduates high school.

Now if I could just get him to find the kitchen at home.

fredr · Dec 11, 2005

Draw a map

You don't decide on the directory. I don't decide on this.

Your son my want to take a look at this http://chef2chef.net/culinary-institute/scholarship-grant/

Fred

jkandersen · Dec 14, 2005

On March 8 you wrote "all listings in question are now gone from the chef2chef database. Please re-check our database."
Editors at resource-zone don't review the discussed sites and there was no reply.
It's unlikely the reviewing editor will have seen a thread here.
If you haven't already done it (I don't know and give no status check), you can write something like this before the suggested description:
[No longer uses ODP data as discussed in http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41744]

The reviewing editor should investigate the claim.
If you have resubmitted without such a note, you can submit ONCE more to the SAME category.

jeanmanco · Dec 15, 2005

I'm afraid that you still have some listings copied from us. Just in this one category, first page: http://foodservice.chef2chef.net/directory/Business/Training_and_Schools/Hospitality/index.html
I spotted:
Birmingham College of Food Tourism and Creative Studies.
Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Management Simulation
Creative Management Systems
d'Orleans & Associates.
Drake International
Foodservice Education
Foodservice University
Gayton Training
Glion Group of Switzerland
Hospitality Management Training Institute
Hotel and Catering Training Company

All with exact copies of the ODP title and description. As it happens, several of these listings needed minor adjustments, one needed removing (dead) and another moving, and so your copy is no longer an exact copy in these cases. (Or it won't be once the public side of the ODP has updated.) Fact remains that I cannot give your site a complete OK for listing. What a pity!

fredr · Dec 16, 2005

Ouch!

All of the above listings plus 798 additional listing have been removed. These listing escaped my March 05 purge since the date added was not identical to the date modified.

My apologies for the oversight.

Fred

jeanmanco · Dec 16, 2005

Thanks. Duly noted. Now it will be up to an editor in that part of the directory to review.

fredr · Dec 16, 2005

Thank you for the quick reply. I did re-submit the site yesterday (once

referencing this thread as suggested by editor jkandersen (thanks for the tip).

Fred

fredr · Feb 14, 2006

I know you don't do site status checks but I would like to make sure that our ducks are in a row and no other issue is presenting a roadblock at this time.

Fred

jimnoble · Feb 14, 2006

Not only do we not do site status checks here, neither do we do pre-reviews

. You'll just have to be patient.

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