Way back in the first couple of years of the Forum and EPO, I think premies were being contacted by Booth Dyess and David Coyne via telephone if they participated in the forum (if they used their own names, I guess), saying that Rawat didn't want premies "talking about knowledge on the internet."   I think this guy Brian, who later became the webmaster, was one person who was actually contacted and he wrote about that.

So, I had heard that Rawat was dissing the internet entirely, and that was before he had any of his own presence on the interenet.  I didn't realize that he had actually ordered premies not to "look" at EPO.  That just sounds paranoid and, well, like what a cult would do.

Frankly, that kind of "indirect agya" (something you didn't hear Rawat say himself), might actually encourage premies to look at it.  I think it would have done that to me if I was still a premie, because I probably wouldn't have believed that the EV honchos were really just passing on Rawat's agya, and I might want to see what all the fuss was about.

It's also so true what you say about the total lack of information on the TPRF and EV sites.  I think Rawat takes a big risk by being on the internet at all, of course I guess he really has no choice.