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From: dvanhook@BBN.COM (Daniel J. Van Hook)
Newsgroups: bbn.bboard
Subject: the wired white house
Date: 2 Feb 1993 08:41:19 -0500
Organization: BBN news/mail gateway


Seen in the Middlesex News of February 1.  It might be of interest.

"Further proof that the Clinton administration will be the first
administratio n wired into the Network World:

The White House now has an employee responsible for making presidential
documents available online.

Communications Daily reports that Jonathon Gill has been named director of
Electronic Publishing and Public Access E-Mail.  Gill was the guy responsible 
for the Clinton campaign's Internet mail server, through which anybody 
connected to the Internet could obtain campaign position papers.

But wait, it gets better!  The White House now has accounts on both CompuServe
and America On-Line.  Given that both services have gateways to the worldwide
Internet, this means that millions of people around the world can send an
e-mail message to the White House (of course, this doesn't guarantee that
Bill himself will see any of the messages).

Before you try it out, though, be aware that they're still figuring out just 
how to deal with the potentially huge amounts of e-mail that could come
flooding in.

One MCIMail user reports in the online Risks digest that, the day before 
Clinton's inauguration, he received the following message when he tried
the CompuServe address:

"Mail Delivery Failure.  No room in mailbox."

Still, if you want to send the administration an electronic piece of your
mind, the CompuServe address is 75300,3115 (which on the Internet translates
to 75300.3115@compuserve.com)."

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