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From: [e-mail] (Garrett Goebel)
Subject: INFO: Clinton Info-Service
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:37:07 GMT
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From [e-mail] Fri Nov 13 04:12:05 1992
Apparently-To: [e-mail]

Garrett,

Thank you for your note.  This is the Clinton/Gore Compuserve address.
For the time being it is not in full operation as the switch is made to
the transition operation.

For more about our systems, lease see below:


           Addresses and pointers to Clinton/Gore
                 Servers & Libraries

                  To paraphrase JFK
          Ask not what the campaign can do for you,
          but rather what you can do for the campaign.

        We need all your help.  No one of us can know or
             do it all.  Together we can win!

                 ---------------
          The automatic Clinton campaign email server is at:

               [e-mail]

  Just send email to this address to receive instructions on its use.

 The great advantage of this server is that it allows you to selectively
 sign up and subscribe to our automatic distribution system.  As we post
 new documents, you will automatically be sent all those in the interest
 areas you have subscribed to.  It supports facilities for asking
 questions of and proposing suggestions to the campaign which are answered
 regularly.

     Please contact us on Compuserve if you have problems, or at:
              [e-mail]

 Below are the instructions for using the Non-partisan M.I.T. Presidential
 Campaign Information Service.  The campaign wishes to specially thank
 Eric Loeb, John Mallery, Howard Shrobe, Patrick Winston and all the
 others on the Volunteer Technical Team who made this system possible.
 The M.I.T.  disclaimer appears at the end of this extend help message,
 followed by the numbers for the Official Clinton/Gore BBS and the
 Clinton/Gore FAX service.

                 ---------------

 This is an automatically generated message, one of many informative
 messages that you can request.  This message is an electronic computer
 form.  It asks a series of questions to which you can respond.  Each
 question has an explanation, some instructions and a list of valid
 responses.  Following the question is a answer space containing a default
 response.  For instance:

 ================ (Beginning of question) ================

 Explanation:  This is an example question.

 Instructions: Please fill in the blank below.  This is simply an example,
 your answer will be discarded.
        Answer: Yes or No. <DEMO-QUESTION> No

 ================ (End of question) ================

 In this case you might want to answer YES to this question (the line
 labeled Answer: lists all the possible responses).  Using electronic mail
 send an edited copy of this message back to political campaign of your
 choice (the valid campaign addresses are listed below).  So, to respond
 YES you could send the following response:

 ================ (Beginning of response) ================

 To: [e-mail]

 Explanation:  This is an example question.

 Instructions: Please fill in the blank below.  This is simply an example,
 your answer will be discarded.

           Answer: Yes or No. <DEMO-QUESTION> Yes

 ================ (End of response) ================

 Notice, I changed the No to a Yes.  In case you were wondering, the only
 important part of the question is the line containing the name of the
 question, in this case <DEMO-QUESTION>.  The rest can be discarded.  In
 general question names are capitalized strings between two colons.  So
 for example this is a valid email response:

 ================ (Beginning of response) ================

 To: [e-mail]
 Subject: My example form

 <FORM> NOT-A-REAL-FORM <DEMO-QUESTION> Yes

 ================ (End of response) ================

 Notice that the use of <> instead of colons.  Computers are easily
 confused so colons can't be written here.  Also notice that the name of
 the form is in the mail message.  The computer needs that information to
 know what questions and answers it should expect.

 If you understand everything above, and you know how to edit files, then
 you can use this form to request some additional information and
 communicate with your campaign.

 About the Service:

 The Presidential Campaign Information Service brings the presidential
 campaign to the INTERNET and the INTERNET to the presidential campaign.
 The services M.I.T. provides fall into four main categories:  Information
 Retrieval, Issues Debating, On-line Press Conferencing, and Volunteer
 Organizing.

 M.I.T. provides these services on an equal basis to the four campaigns
 that are on all 50 state ballots.  Services for other campaigns are
 reached at its electronic mail address:

 [e-mail]
 [e-mail]
 [e-mail]
 [e-mail]

 I.    Retrieve Information

 You can ask for and receive packages of position papers.  Each campaign's
 materials are categorized as Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Social
 Policy, Political Philosophy, Campaign News, and Speeches.  You ask to
 receive these packages by sending mail to the corresponding campaign.
 For example, you will receive all of the Clinton campaign's Social Policy
 position papers if you send email with the Subject: RECEIVE SOCIAL to

 [e-mail]

 The other way to receive the Clinton campaign's social policy papers is
 to say YES to the receive-social question below and then mail this form
 to the Clinton campaign at the above internet address.

 Similarly, you can send RECEIVE ECONOMY, RECEIVE FOREIGN, RECEIVE
 SPEECHES,  RECEIVE PHILOSOPHY,  RECEIVE NEWS, or  RECEIVE ALL  Subject:
 lines to any of the campaigns, or send a filled form to any of the
 campaigns.

 II.   Debate the Issues

 There are 4 discussion groups for each campaign:
 Discussion Group Foreign Policy
 Discussion Group Social Policy
 Discussion Group Political Philosophy
 Discussion Group Economic Policy

 There are 3 debate forums in which all the campaigns interact:
 Economic Policy Debate Forum
 Foreign Policy Debate Forum
 Social Policy Debate Forum
 Political Philosophy Debate Forum

 Every member of a policy discussion group is also a member of  the
 corresponding debate forum.

 Discussion groups and debate forums are both electronic mailing lists.
 Any time you send mail to your discussion group or debate forum,
 everybody on the mailing list -- including you -- receives the mail that
 you sent.

 You can only join a debate forum by joining a campaign's discussion
 group.  You can only join the discussion groups of a single campaign.
 Whenever you volunteer for a different campaign, or add yourself to one
 of its discussion groups, your group membership change to reflect your
 new allegiance.

 For example, to join the Clinton campaign Foreign Policy groups you
 would send mail to

 [e-mail]

 with the Subject line:  discuss foreign

 This would automatically enter you in the Foreign Policy Debate Forum and
 the Clinton campaign's Foreign Policy Discussion Group.  If you had
 already been in the Clinton Social Policy group, then you would suddenly
 be a member of the Clinton Social Policy group as well, and you would no
 longer be in any Perot (or Bush or Marrou) groups.  All of your mailing
 list affiliations will have switched to the Clinton campaign.

 III.  Ask the candidates

 In order to get high-quality suggestions and questions from the network
 to the campaigns M.I.T. has devised the following method:  Each campaign
 has a suggestion box.  You can anonymously post your ideas and questions
 to a suggestion box.  You can also read the contents of a suggestion box,
 and vote for the items you like best.  The campaigns will each receive
 their top vote-getting items as they accumulate.  The Clinton Campaign
 will broadcast its responses as they become available.

 To ask Govenor Clinton a question, you would send mail to

 [e-mail]

 with the Subject line: question propose

 Anything you type in the body of the message should be a question or
 suggestion for the Clinton campaign.  Make sure you sign the note if you
 don't want it to be anonymous.

 To read the contents of the Clinton suggestion box, send to

 [e-mail]

 with the Subject line: question get

 You will then receive a mail message with a list of the items posted  by
 other Informational Services participants.  The items are clearly
 numbered.  To vote for items number 3743 and 1208 you could send mail to

 [e-mail]

 with the Subject line: question vote 3743 1208

 You can also do these things via form, of course.  Answer VOTE to the
 CAMPAIGN-FEEDBACK question below.

 IV.   Organize Volunteers

 It is all very well to read your mail and debate, but the bottom line is
 getting out the vote.  M.I.T. expects that the most potent use of email
 is to get fresh documents to volunteers all over the country, with the
 expectation that those volunteers are making hard copies of the documents
 and posting/distributing the documents throughout their *physical*
 environment.

 As an experimental service, M.I.T. is proving mailing lists for the
 volunteers in each state.  Those mailing lists can be used to help local
 volunteers coordinate their efforts amongst themselves and with their
 state headquarters.

 To register as a Clinton volunteer in Florida, send mail to

 [e-mail]

 with the Subject line: volunteer Florida

 When you register as a volunteer you are automatically included in the
 national volunteer mailing list.  As a member of that mailing list, you
 will automatically receive any new material that is made available by
 your campaign.

 If you are a volunteer with one campaign you can not be a member of any
 other campaigns' discussion groups.  You do not have to be a volunteer to
 join a discussion group.

 To receive a full set of commands, send a message to:

    [e-mail]

    with the subject line:  HELP

              --------------------

 The M.I.T. Presidential Campaign Information Service is a non-partisan
 service operated at M.I.T to make campaign information available,
 facilitate electronic discussion of the issues, and to study the use of
 electronic mail as a component of a presidential campaign.  The service
 can neither control who reads what you write in public, nor how they may
 use your written words. For our part, we store most messages, and we will
 make them available after the election for scientific study.  Names and
 any other identifiers will not be released; they will be omitted or
 replaced with random symbols.  M.I.T. provides this service on an equal
 basis to all candidates on the ballot in a signifcant number of states.

 The several incarnations of the running software were created by Eric
 Loeb and John Mallery at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
 They gratefully acknowledge contributions from: Roger Hurwitz, Marion
 Just, Albert Smith, Howie Shrobe, Chris Stacy, Richard Stallman, Robert
 Thau, Bruce Walton, Paul Viola, and Patrick Winston.

 __________________________________________________________

 The Official Clinton/Gore BBS:

      501-399-3877      9600 baud 8N1      24 hours per day

 ____________________________________________________________

 The Clinton/Gore FAX on demand service:

      800-945-8845

 This will get you a FREE directory.
 Items requested will be billed to your number.
 ____________________________________________________________

     CLINTON SPEECHES AND POSITION PAPERS AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL

 [This server is passive and waits for your requests.  To keep current,
 you will have to check this server on a regular basis.]

 You can get speeches and position papers of the Clinton/Gore campaign via
 email.  To get these files all you need is the ability to send mail to
 the internet.

 Send a message to <[e-mail]> where the text contains the
 commands listed below.  To find out more about the ftpmail server, send a
 message with 'help' as the text of the message.

 To find out more about NPTN (National Public Telecomputing Network, where
 the information is stored), request the ABOUT.NPTN.TXT file.

 You can ask for more than one file at a time.  Just add a line begining
 with 'get' for each file that you want to receive.  But, don't request
 more than 10 files at a time, since that is the maximum the mail server
 will permit in one message.  The 'reply' line is optional if you trust
 the mailer to properly format a return address.

 It may take several hours for the files to be returned to you.  But they
 should arrive in your mailbox with little hastle.  (If you want the files
 promptly, you can anonymous ftp to nptn.org.)

 ==============

 Use the following commands as the text of a message to
 <[e-mail]>:

 reply <PUT YOUR MAIL ADDRESS HERE> connect nptn.org  chdir
 /pub/campaign.92/clinton.dir get FILENAME  <== (Replace FILENAME with the
 name of the file you want) quit

 ==============


 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

      Instructions for reaching the Clinton/Gore Library

 Other anonymous ftp sites that have Clinton speeches:

 "nptn.org" (192.55.234.52) in directory /pub/campaign.92/clinton.dir

 "ftp.uu.net" (137.39.1.9) in directory /doc/papers/democrats/clinton
 [Type "type binary" before transferring any files.  The files must be
 uncompressed (using "uncompress") after they are transferred.]

  "pslu1.psl.wisc.edu" (128.104.200.15) in directory
                    /pub/politics/clinton.

  "ftp.cco.caltech.edu" in directory /pub/bjmccall/Clinton

  "ftp.apple.com." in the directory "/public/politics/clinton"

  - To use anonymous ftp, type "ftp" at your unix prompt.  - At the ftp
 prompt type "open <site name or number as given above>".  - Login as
 "anonymous", with your email address as the password.  - Commands like
 "cd" and "ls" now work for viewing the remote machine.  - Type "prompt"
 to prevent prompting before each file you mget.  - Use "get" for a single
 file and "mget" for many files (eg *.txt).

 ____________________________________________________________

 Clinton/Gore GIF files: [Thanks to Bill Roth]

 Clinton Gore images are now available on anonymous ftp at:
 pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (128.104.200.15) in /pub/politics/clinton/images.
 They are mostly GIFS.
 ______________________________________________________________


 CLINTON on [e-mail] - Bill Clinton's Presidential Campaign
 or [e-mail]

    This list is intended for the discussion of Bill Clinton's 1992
 campaign for President.  It will provide a forum for the exchange of
 ideas and information on his candidacy and campaign.  Topics may
 include but are not limited to;  issues, policy, organization,
 strategy, and appearances.

    The list can serve as a collection point for the opinions and views
 which we would like to make known to the candidates, and it can serve
 to coordinate volunteer efforts during the campaign.

    Archives of CLINTON Log files can be listed by sending the command
 INDEX CLINTON to LISTSERV@MARIST on BITNET.

    To subscribe, send the following command to [e-mail]
 or [e-mail] in the BODY of mail or BITNET interactive
 message:
          SUB CLINTON your full name

 -------------------------------------------------------

 Many thanks to our friends who have created libraries for us.

 If you would like to create a Library, and I hope you will, please
 contact me on Compuserve at: 75300,3115.

 >From Internet this is:  [e-mail]  or
              [e-mail]

 Please allow us to direct others to your library and to publish its
 address.

 Regards,
 Jock Gill Clinton/Gore Email Campaign
 Little Rock, AR

 rel 10/25/92


--
Garrett Goebel,8811500 <[e-mail]>