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          GETTING INFORMATION TO AND FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
                     FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
                       Updated March 12, 1993

A. HOW TO SIGN UP FOR ELECTRONIC RELEASES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:

The White House Communications office is distributing press releases over an experimental system developed during the campaign.

You can sign up to receive press releases on this experimental system by using the automated computer server. You will be carried forward onto the system that replaces it. However, it would be appreciated if you used this service sparingly at this time. The present system was not designed to handle high levels of message traffic. In due course, a more powerful system will be available.

You can also find copies of the press releases in certain on-line bulletin board groups devoted to discussions of either national politics in general or President Clinton in particular.

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

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

              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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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.

B. ARE THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES BEING ARCHIVED.

Yes. Various sites are archiving the press releases. 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.
      (: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. 

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 White House Forum (GO WHITEHOUSE) on CompuServe 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.

6. 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.

7. 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. SENDING E-MAIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE

The White House e-mail 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. E-mail 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 e-mail 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

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
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