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Jan.31, 1994


A PUSH TO GET THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ACCESSABLE VIA THE NET
  In a message From DSS9973@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU Thu Jan 27 12:11:19 1994, Shawn 
Stevens -- a staffer with Texas State Rep. Glen Maxey in the TX Legislature
said:
  Feel free to distribute my address to anyone you think would be of help in 
the effort to bring the TX Legislature online. ...
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He's at Box 2910, Capitol Stn., Austin TX 78768; 512-463-0552; fax/480-0365


CALIF LEGISLATIVE STAFF:  SPEAK UP!
I just heard that one or maybe several people among the California 
legislative staff, managers or administrators wants to make a public 
statement -- either critical of me and/or rebutting any/some of my past 
public comments.
  Hey! -- sounds good to me!  :-)  If I can't take the heat, I shouldn't 
generate the flames.  ;-)

Unfettered, candid discussion is a potent part of the power and benefit of 
the net.  I value it; I support it.  Explicitly:


MY STANDING OFFER, REPEATEDLY STATED, STILL STANDS
  Just to make sure everyone knows it -- the offer I made, repeatedly, to 
a number of legislative and Legislative Data Center staff in the past, 
remains open.  Permanantly.  To wit:

Anyone in the Legislature -- legislator, legislative staffer, unelected 
official, manager, administrator, LDC staffer, ... ANYONE therein -- is 
still welcome to send ANY statement(s) they wish to me for broadcast to my 
full distribution list, upon receipt (I'm usually online at least several 
times, weekly -- 4th Qtr.'93 being an exception due to unrelated offline 
projects).

Caveats/conditions:
  1.  I will not edit or modify it in any way.  I encourage any sender to 
simultaneously send copies to addressees who are clearly independent of me, 
when sending a copy to me -- for our mutual protection.
  2.  Each such message must include a specific request/instruction that I 
retransmit it to the distribution list.  If that preference is unclear, I 
may not broadcast it.
  3.  I *may* broadcast such a message without its source-identifier, but 
only if the source requests such "anonymous" protection.  Upon request, I 
*will* remove the electronic address of the sender, upon request to protect 
them against unwanted email.
  4.  If I am suspicious about a request or actual source, or about whether 
I may be challenged as to the authenticity of the message and source, I may 
require that a hand-signed copy be faxed or snailmailed to me before I will 
broadcast it.


GOING TO ALL LEGISLATIVE EADDRS I CAN IDENTIFY
  This message -- aside from going to my full distribution list -- is being 
copied to every email address I have been able to ping in the Legislature.
  THIS IS A STANDING OFFER TO YOU ALL.
  I *want* you to have equal access to this potent communications tool. I 
*encourage* you to use it.


Mo' as it Is.
--jim
Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc.
345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/415-851-2814
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