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I usually stay out of these kinds of things; I don't like to get
involved with "politics", but this is so under-handed, heinous and
yet brazen, I just can't take it. Why not just take EPA staff out behind the woodshed and shoot them? Imagine
the cost savings. Curtailing access to information is akin to "destroying"
information. This is ridiculous. I understand there may be some budget problems
but when the wagon train pulls out at midnight, it's probably cause they wanted
to travel by night, like little vermin. Scott Dierks -----Original Message----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enviro-Mich message from Gary Stock <gstock@net-link.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MICHDAVE@aol.com wrote: > House Democratic committee chairs demanded that EPA Administrator > Stephen Johnson assure them "that the destruction or
disposition > of all library holdings immediately ceased upon the Agency's > receipt of this letter and that all records of library holdings > and dispersed materials are being maintained." On the
very next > day, December 1st, EPA de-linked thousands of documents from the > website for the Office of Prevention, Pollution and Toxic > Substances (OPPTS) Library, in EPA's Curses! Normally, this would be where I could jump in to advise that Google or the Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php) could protect us from the mongrels set upon us by Resident Bush. Sadly, EPA implemented protocols that advise web crawling services (the largest of which typically respect such directives) _not_ to index much of the EPA site. Thus, many EPA documents -- the level of detail and volume of data we could expect for most .com or .edu sites -- were not being preserved by most of the popular search and archiving services... :-( GS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary
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