This:
http://www.differentstrings.info/archives/003137.html

Yesterday, Atrios posted a story about how the folks at The White House
Website have changed their robots.txt file to prevent search engines
from cataloging pages about Iraq. While no one is quite sure, yet, why
they're doing this, one theory that has been floated is that it is to
prevent those pages from being cached by Google, thus making it harder
to prove that anything has been changed - such as earlier this year when
they edited all the pages that has referred to Bush declaring that
"combat operations" in Iraq had ended to show, instead, that Bush had
said that "major combat operations" had ended.

And the line we are supposed to believe is that John Kerry "flip/flops"

I have a link somewhere that clearly shows the whitehouse web page
before and after the quote was changed. Want me to find it?
Jim


Jim wrote:

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

Begin quote of comment
"
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