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     WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC ACCESS EMAIL
		      FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

			Updated April 7, 1993

			  Table Of Contents

	I.    Signing up for Daily Electronic Publications.
		A.  Widely Available Sources.
		B.  Notes on Widely Available Sources.
		C.  Direct Email Distribution

	II.   Searching and Retrieving White House documents.
		-  WAIS
		-  GOPHER
		-  FedWorld BBS

	III.  Sending email to the White House.
		-  CompuServe
		-  America OnLine
		-  MCI
		-  Fidonet
		-  Internet



I.  HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS BY THE WHITE HOUSE?

The White House Communications office is distributing press releases
over an experimental system developed during the campaign at the MIT
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

You can obtain copies of all the press releases from a wide variety of
on-line services or discussion groups devoted to either national
politics in general or President Clinton in particular.  These are
listed in sections I and II.

Section Ic explains how you can sign up to receive press releases
directly from the experimental MIT system by using an automated email
server.  The present system was not designed to handle high levels of
message traffic. A more powerful system will become available in due
course, and in the meantime, it would be appreciated if you used this
service sparingly.  One appropriate current use is secondary
redistribution and archiving. If you use it, you will be carried
forward when the more powerful system that replaces it.


A. WIDELY AVAILABLE SOURCES


1.  On USENET/NETNEWS, electronic publications are found on a variety
    of groups:

	Direct Distribution

		alt.politics.clinton
		alt.politics.org.misc
		alt.politics.reform
		alt.politics.usa.misc
		alt.news-media
		alt.activism
		talk.politics.misc

	Indirect Distribution

		misc.activism.progressive
		cmu.soc.politics
		assocs.clinton-gore-92 

2.  On CompuServe: GO WHITEHOUSE

3.  On America Online: keyword WHITEHOUSE or THE WHITEHOUSE or CLINTON

4.  On The WELL: type whitehouse

5.  On MCI: type VIEW WHITE HOUSE

6.  On Fidonet: See Echomail WHITEHOUSE

7.  On Peacenet or Econet: See pol.govinfo.usa.


B. NOTES ON WIDELY AVAILABLE SOURCES


2.      CompuServe's White House Forum (GO WHITEHOUSE) is devoted to
	discussion of the Clinton administration's policies and
	activities. The forum's library consists of news releases and
	twice daily media briefings from the White House Office of
	Media Affairs. CompuServe members can exchange information and
	opinions with each other in the 17 sections in the forum's
	message area. The message board spans a broad range of topics,
	including international and United Nations activities,
	defense, health care, the economy and the deficit, housing and
	urban development, the environment, and education and national
	service.

3.      On America Online the posts are sent to the White House Forum,
	located in the News & Finance department of the service and
	accessible via keywords "white house" and "clinton."  The
	White House Forum on America Online contains the press
	releases from the White House, divided into the categories
	"Press Briefings," "Meetings & Speeches," "Foreign Policy,"
	"The Economy," "Technology," "Health Care," and
	"Appointments." The area features a message board so you can
	discuss the releases with other AOL members, and a searchable
	database for easy retrieval of releases in the topic that
	interests you.

4.      MCI Mail users can access daily information on the administration's      
	programs provided by the White House through MCI Mail bulletin
	boards.  The available boards are: WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC, WHITE
	HOUSE FOREIGN, WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL, WHITE HOUSE SPEECHES and
	WHITE HOUSE NEWS.  A listing of these boards can also be
	obtained by simply typing VIEW WHITE HOUSE at the COMMAND
	prompt.



C. DIRECT EMAIL DISTRIBUTION

If you don't have access to the these accounts or if you would prefer
to receive the releases via email, then the next section details how
to sign up for this service.  The server is not set up to answer
email letters, comments or requests for specific information. To
reach this MIT server, send email:

		To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
		Subject: Help

The server works by reading the subject line of the incoming message
and taking whatever action that line calls for. If you want to sign up
to automatically receive press releases, then your subject line would
begin with the word RECEIVE.  You can then specify what kind of
information you are interested in receiving. The categories of
information are:

ECONOMIC POLICY
		Get releases related to the economy such as budget
		news, technology policy review, etc.


FOREIGN POLICY
		Get releases related to foreign policy such as
		statements on Bosnian airdrop, Haitian refugee status,
		etc.


SOCIAL POLICY
		Get releases related to social issues like National
		Service (Student Loan) program, abortion, welfare
		reform, etc.

SPEECHES                    
		All speeches made by the President and important
		speeches made by other Administration officials.

NEWS
		Transcripts of press conferences released by the White
		House Communications office, as well as the
		President's remarks in photo ops and other Q&A
		sessions.

ALL             All of the above

So, if you wanted to sign up to get releases related to the economy
your email message would look like this:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
	Subject: RECEIVE ECONOMY

When you send a signup message to the clinton-info server, it sends
you back a status message letting you know what distribution streams
you are signed up for. If you ever want to check on what groups you
are signed up for send the following message:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
	Subject: STATUS

You can stop receiving email releases by sending a REMOVE message to
the clinton-info server. The word REMOVE would be followed by whatever
distribution stream you wanted to drop. If you wanted to stop
receiving message about the ECONOMY then your mail would look like
this:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org Subject: REMOVE ECONOMY

You could substitute SOCIAL, FOREIGN, SPEECHES, NEWS or ALL for
ECONOMY in the above message and you would be dropped from that
distribution list. If you send the subject line REMOVE ALL, then you
will be taken off the email distribution system all together and will
not receive further releases of any kind.

You can also ask for help from the automated server.  Send an email
query as follows:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
	Subject: HELP

The server will respond by sending you a detailed form that will guide
you through the process of signing up for the various distribution
streams.  As you will quickly discover, there is a automatic form
processing interface that parallel the quick and easy subject line
commands discussed here. More detailed help is available by sending
an email query as follows:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
	Subject: Please Help!

Finally, if you want to search and retrieve documents, but you do not
have access to the retrieval methods discussed in section II, you can
do this via email through the MIT server. You can obtain the WAIS
query form by sending an email query as follows:

	To: Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
	Subject: WAIS

Once you have identified the documents that you want, be careful not
to request them all at once, because you may be sent a message
containing all the documents and this message may be too big for some
mail delivery systems between the email server and you.



II.  HOW DO I RETRIEVE WHITE HOUSE PUBLICATIONS FROM INTERNET ARCHIVES?

Various sites are archiving the press releases distributed .  What follows is an
incomplete list of some of the sites containing the documents that
have been released to date.  This FAQ will be updated to reflect new
sites as they become known.

	 SITE                           DIRECTORY

1. SUNSITE.UNC.EDU              /HOME3/WAIS/WHITE-HOUSE-PAPERS
2. FTP.CCO.CALTECH.EDU          /PUB/BJMCCALL
3. FTP MARISTB.MARIST.EDU
4. CPSR.ORG                     /CPSR/CLINTON
5. FedWorld BBS                 703-321-8020  8-N-1

Notes:  The following are notes on how to log in and get
	information from the above sites.

1.      Office FOR Information Technology at University of
	North Carolina Maintains the full collection of White
	House electronic release available for search with WAIS and
	also accessible via Gopher.
1.a	WAIS
	(:source
	:version 3
	:database-name "/home3/wais/White-House-Papers" :ip-
		address "152.2.22.81"
	:ip-name "sunsite.unc.edu"
	:tcp-port 210
	:cost 0.00
	:cost-unit :free
	:maintainer "pjones@sunsite.unc.edu"

	:description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on  
	Feb 27 15:16:16 1993 by pjones@sunsite.unc.edu These are the
	White House Press Briefings and other postings dealing with
	William Jefferson Clinton and Albert Gore as well as members
	of the President's Cabinet and the first lady Hillary Rodham
	Clinton, Chelsea, Socks and others in Washington DC. Dee Dee
	Meyers and George Stephanopoulos.  Other good words:
	United States of America, Bill Al Tipper Democrats USA 
	US These files are also available via anonymous ftp 
	from sunsite.unc.edu The files of type filename used in 
	the index were: 
	/home3/ftp/pub/academic/political-science/whitehouse-
	 papers/1993 ")

	Folks without WAIS clients or gophers that act as WAIS
	clients may telnet to sunsite.unc.edu and login as swais 
	to access this information via WAIS.

1.b	GOPHER is a distributed menuing system for information access on the
	Internet developed at the University of Minnesota. gophers are
	client-server implementations and various gopher clients are
	available for nearly any computing platform.  You may now use
	gopher clients to assess the White House Papers and other
	political information on SunSITE.unc.edu's new gopher server.
	You may also add links from your local gopher server to
	SunSITE for access to the White House Papers.

	For gopher server keepers and adventurous clients to access
	SunSITE you need only know that we use the standard gopher
	port 70 and that our internet address is SunSITE.unc.edu
	(152.2.22.81). Point there and you'll see the references to
	the Politics areas.

	For folks without gopher clients but with access to telnet:
	telnet sunsite.unc.edu login: gopher The rest is very straight
	forward. Browsing options end with a directory mark (/),
	searching options end with an question mark (?). There's
	plenty of on-line help available.

2.      No special instructions.

3.      The CLINTON@MARIST log files which contain all the official
	administration releases distributed through the MIT servers
	are available via anonymous FTP. These logs contain in
	addition to the official releases, the posts that comprise the
	ongoing discussion conducted by the list subscribers. 
	To obtain the logs:
	FTP MARISTB.MARIST.EDU - the logs are in the CLINTON directory
	and are named CLINTON LOG9208 thru CLINTON LOGyymm where yymm
	stands for the current year and month. Problems should be
	directed to my attention: URLS@MARISTC.BITNET or
	URLS@VM.MARIST.EDU. 
	Posted by Lee Sakkas - owner, CLINTON@MARIST

4.      Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is
	providing all Clinton documents on technology and privacy
	at the CPSR Internet Library, available via
	FTP/WAIS/Gopher at cpsr.org /cpsr/clinton (and in other
	folders as relevant). For email access, send a message
	with the word "help" at the 1st line of text to
	listserv@cpsr.org.

5.      The FedWorld Computer System, operated by the National Technical
	Information Service, archives White House papers in a traditional BBS
	type file library.  Connect to FedWorld by calling (703) 321- 8020.
	No parity, eight data bits and one stop bit (N-8-1).  FedWorld
	accommodates baud speeds of up to 9,600.  White House papers are
	located in the W-House library of files.  To access this library from
	the main FedWorld menu, enter <f s w-house>.  Files are named with the
	first four digits being the release month and day (e.g. 0323XXX.txt).
	Some standard abbreviations after the date include:
 
		rem - Remarks by the President
		pc  - Press Conference transcript
		pr  - Press Release
		AM  - AM Press Briefing
		PM  - PM Press Briefing
		sch - The President's public schedule
		spch- Text of major speeches.
 
	These files are saved in ASCII format.  Files can be viewed online by
	requesting to download a file and then selecting (L)ist as the
	download protocol.   This will display the file a screen at a time.
	White House papers are kept in the above format for up to two months.
	Papers more than two months old are compressed using Pkzip into a
	single file that contains all of the files for that month (e.g.
	0193.zip contains all papers released during January 1993).  In
	addition to White Documents, FedWorld also provides a gateway to more
	than 100 government funded BBSs and computer systems.



III.  HOW DO I SEND EMAIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE?

The White House email system is under construction.  This is a new
project and suffers from all of the problems common to a startup
operation.  The Communications office is currently working on defining
what this system will do, as well as trying to come up with equipment
and staffing to make sure that it works.  Email messages are
currently being printed out and responses are being sent out via US
Mail.

Nobody wants this new venture to work more than the staff that has
devoted so many hours to getting it up and running.  But much time and
effort will be required before the system is truly interactive.  In
the mean time, they will need a little patience from the electronic
community.  If you send a message to the White House, please include a
US Post office address for replies.

	You can send email to the following accounts:

CompuServe:             75300,3115
			GO: WHITE HOUSE         finds White House forum

America OnLine:         clinton pz
			KEYWORD: WHITEHOUSE     finds White House area

MCI                     TO: WHITE HOUSE
			VIEW WHITE HOUSE	views bulletin boards

Fidonet                 TO: WHITEHOUSE@1:2613/333
			Echomail: WHITEHOUSE	views echomail conference

Internet:               Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org
			75300.3115@CompuServe.Com
			clintonpz@AOL.Com

Please send corrections, deletion and additions to this FQA to:

			Updates@Clinton92.Org

