White House e-mail

[Mark Levinson <mark -at- CRABAPPLE -dot- BITNET>]

Two people asked me what e-mail services are available from the
White House.  My answers bounced back from them both.  For
them & whoever else is interested...

There's some e-mail disruption at my own end, so I haven't tried to
resubscribe to the White House stuff yet, but I did send an inquiry
to one address that seemed to have a human being at the other end
and these are extracts from the response I got:--

-- Quote --

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

        To: Clinton-Info -at- Campaign92 -dot- 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 -at- Campaign92 -dot- Org
        Subject: Please Help!

----------- Quote regarding a separate service for press releases --

Following are instructions on how to subscribe and/or to unsubscribe
[ to daily press releases ]. Note that all commands must be the *ONLY*
information contained in the BODY of your message.


To subscribe
        Send a message to --            almanac -at- esusda -dot- gov
        In the body, type --            subscribe wh-summary

To Unsubscribe
        Send a message to --            almanac -at- esusda -dot- gov
        In the body, type --            unsubscribe wh-summary

If you have any questions about these summaries, please contact

        wh-admin -at- esusda -dot- gov

Back issues of the summaries can be retrieved from almanac -at- esusda -dot- gov

        send wh-summary catalog

Back issues (2 months) of the White House documents

        send white-house catalog

-------- And here's information about yet a third service --

we are proud
to announce the Internet address for obtaining White House
documents and publications.  The address is:

               publications -at- whitehouse -dot- gov

To receive instructions for obtaining documents, please send a
request to the above address.  In the body of the message, type
"Send Info" (without quotes); no other text is necessary.  The
instructions will be sent to you automatically.  You will then be
able to search for and receive a list of documents by simply e-
mailing your request, as outlined in the instructions.  Once you
have received your list and made your selection, our publications
server will mail the information you have requested within a
matter of minutes.  We would like to hear your reactions to this
new offering.  Send comments/suggestions to:

          publications-comments -at- whitehouse -dot- gov

- - - -

All this stuff is one-way traffic, from the government to you.
You can write to Clinton as president -at- whitehouse -dot- gov and (it seems)
to Gore as vice -dot- president -at- whitehouse -dot- gov -dot-   Supposedly the staff
reads your message for content and logs it, but all you get back
from Clinton is an e-mailed form letter.  I never tried writing
to Gore.

(Read somewhere that Gore once did an "electronic town meeting"
on Internet, though...)

Good luck.
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