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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 11:58:06 -0700
From: Senate-News-Reply@SEN.CA.GOV
Subject: senate-news(access,updates): evolving services

2-AUG-1994  EVOLVING ONTO THE INTERNET

Overview:  Following are two different but related messages (1) the
           evolution of services to the public , and (2) the role of
           the public in the evolution.

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The Evolution of Services
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Many of you have been following the progress of services to the Internet
community offered by the California State Senate:

Electronic Mail:       @sen.ca.gov
Finger address and
  Zip/code Server:     @sen.ca.gov
Finger by mail:        finger@sen.ca.gov, subject contains query string
FTP Archives:          sen.ca.gov, user anonymous
Mailserver Archives:   mailserv@sen.ca.gov
Subscription/Infor-
  mation Services:     senate-news@sen.ca.gov
Gopher Server:         gopher.sen.ca.gov
WWW Server:            www.sen.ca.gov


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The role of the public in the evolution
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We have received numerous encouraging e-mail notes and many useful
notes identifying problems and making suggestions.  Thank you.  Please
continue to do that (both).

Senators and staff use the same services (Gopher, WWW, etc.) to access
information as you, the public use.  For example, when you access
gopher.sen.ca.gov, the menus you see are the same gopher menus that
Senators and staff see.

If Senators and staff are going to find community based information
systems, those systems have to be quickly, easily, and reliably
accessible to them.  So, we have two good motives for keeping those
services viable: (1) to serve you the public, and (2) to serve the
Senators and staff.

We rely on you, the public, to inform us of new community based infor-
mation sources accessible via Gopher, WWW, mail-servers, etc.  We will
place those in the servers accessible to Senators and staff so that
they can find your community interest information.

If there is a university or regional site that maintains a good set
of pointers or references, we would prefer to identify them rather
than duplicate what they are doing.  However, if Senators and staff
are going to quickly and easily find what they are looking for, we
may need to duplicate some things to avoid "hiding" them in a
less obvious hierarchy.

We solicit your assistance in locating and identifying any regional,
county, or community based information accessible over the Internet.

We solicit your comments and recommendations on how best to serve
the public both by providing information to the public, and providing
Senators and staff with access to their information.

Please send your comments to News.Editor@sen.ca.gov