Ratbags Owner, Peter Bowditch nuking Snake-oil Posse from Internet

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Ilena Rose - 02 Mar 2008 20:38 GMT

Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com

After Stephen Barrett, Terry Polevoy and Chistopher Grell got totally
defeated in their SLAPP suit against me ... their team went on a blitz
to remove all evidence of their team ... together by choice from 2000
until 2007.

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/Snake-oil.htm
Barrett, Baratz, Polevoy, Grell, Probert, Langer, etc.

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm

In early 2007, while working diligently with Barrett and Paul Lee
(fyslee) and others on Wikipedia (in various disguises and aliases)
... site owner, Peter Bowditch nuked the Posse list which included all
named above, as well as disbarred attorney, Mark S Probert, Baratz,
David "Orac" Gorski.

The "snake-oil" that they are 'vigilant' for is primarily
vaccinations, but also ritalin and other pharmaceuticals ... as well
as Barrett's absurd denials about chemicals and MCS.

They use the "it's anything but the chemicals" appropach identically
to disinform about breast implants, vaccinations, cell phones, GM
foods, etc. etc. etc.

In Fall, 2007, Bowditch nuked from the webarchive the list ...

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205050827/http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm

When questioned, he, the "site owner" of ratbags.com, lied to the
public that webarchive had made the decision ...

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205050827/http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm
We're sorry, access to http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm has
been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.

Apparently he has blocked lots of the Ratbags history ... the "posse"
being but one. Click link below to see other parts of Ratbags he has
'censored' from view.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070829014951/www.ratbags.com/robots.txt
Disallow: /posse/images
Disallow: /posse/js

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Peter Bowditch - 02 Mar 2008 21:59 GMT

>In Fall, 2007, Bowditch nuked from the webarchive the list ...
>
>http://web.archive.org/web/20050205050827/http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm
>
>When questioned, he, the "site owner" of ratbags.com, lied to the
>public that webarchive had made the decision ...

Web Archive honours the robots.txt convention, as do Google, Yahoo!,
MSN and all other reputable search engines. Deal with it!

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/robots.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

>http://web.archive.org/web/20050205050827/http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm
>We're sorry, access to http://www.ratbags.com/posse/whoarewe.htm has
>been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.

Yep. As I said above, Web Archive does what everyone else does.

>Apparently he has blocked lots of the Ratbags history ... the "posse"
>being but one. Click link below to see other parts of Ratbags he has
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>Disallow: /posse/images
>Disallow: /posse/js

Oh, sh.t, you're funny!

I'll go real slow so even you can understand. I block the search
engines from the images and JavaScript directories of all web sites I
manage. (I also often have a directory called "ni" which is blocked.
This contains pages which should only be accessed indirectly through
other pages on the site.) I do this as a courtesy to the search
engines as the folders contain no indexable pages and it would be a
waste of the search engines' time and bandwidth to spider them.

Why don't you look for some real problems to whinge about?

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