First I'm sorry for mispelling whitehouse in the topic line.
I have learned more
see
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/colu...s/001450.shtml

Where there is notice that someone who controls Whitehouse.gov set loose a
bot

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Well, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt and go see for yourself.
It's *only* 61K, and I'll excerpt a little for you here Mr. Mortimer.

# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /1/2/3/4/iraq
Disallow: /1/2/3/4/text
Disallow: /360pics/iraq
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/iraq
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/iraq
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
Disallow: /911/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism/text
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/iraq
Disallow: /911/patriotism2/text
Disallow: /911/progress/iraq
Disallow: /911/progress/text

It was done. It was *obviously* done. As a constituent, I am *not* amused!"



Kinda makes me go hummmmm



"Jim" wrote in message
...
Once upon a time (in the days of Clinton) the White House published a nice
tasteful webpage. see


http://web.archive.org/web/199812021...elcome-nt.html

Then along came Bush and things turned political

www.whitehouse.gov.

Of interest also is that cached copies showing the history of
Whitehouse.gov
during the Clinton administration are hard to find, but I can find
archived
copies of my ISP home page back to day 1

http://web.archive.org/web/*/rpa.net

I used wayback machine to find these. If anyone else can find a better
history of whitehouse.gov, I would be interested.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php