>> Does anyone know if the proceedings of Friday's meetings between Indian
>> national leaders and Clinton will be published?
>
> Most items of interest, available to the public, can be gotten by
> calling the White House switch board (202)456-1414 and asking for publications
> between the hours of 9:00am - 4:00pm EST, or snail mail to same. John Berry
And Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us) inserted:
| Some government documents are now available electronically via ftp/gopher
| servers, I think. Perhaps someone who has more information on these
| servers can post it here as a followup article.
As it happens, I just received this information from the White House, in
two parts. I hope this is helpful! The first is from the White House
autoresponder:
> Our electronic communications project has been structured in
> three phases. Phase One established the Internet address, so
> that we could begin receiving electronic mail. Phase Two now
> provides a means for interested parties to receive White House
> publications. The goal of Phase Three, which we hope to achieve
> soon, is to respond electronically to the substance of incoming
> messages.
>
> Now that Phase Two of our project is complete, we are proud
> to announce the Internet address for obtaining White House
> documents and publications. The address is:
>
> publications@whitehouse.gov
>
> To receive instructions, please send a message to
> publications@whitehouse.gov (**do not "reply" to the memo you are
> now reading**). In the body of your message, type "Send Info"
> (without quotes); no other text is necessary. The instructions
> will be sent to you automatically.
The next message is the complete text sent in response to the "Send Info"
request:
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Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 15:47:07 -0400
Subject: RE: your request
Errors-To: almanac-bugs@WhiteHouse.Gov
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## Regarding your request:
Send Info
Welcome:
--------
Welcome to the White House automatic mail response system.
To send requests to the response system, simply enclose them in the
body of a message addressed to publications@whitehouse.gov.
In order to be correctly processed, requests must be in the
message BODY, not in the Subject: line
Commands:
---------
The following commands are recognized:
help - Will send you this file.
topic STRING - Will send you a list of files and file numbers
with the specified string in their title.
send file NUMBER - Will send you the specified file. The file number
is returned as part of a "topic" request.
send index - Will send you the complete file index from the
server. This file is approximately 400kb in size.
uuencode - Sets the file transfer mode to uuencode all
binary data. This mode should be used when requesting
binary files. Place the "uuencode" command before
the "send file" request, Ex:
uuencode
send file 1239713
Note that the "uuencode" and "send file" commands
must be separate different lines.
Example of retrieving a document:
---------------------------------
%-> mail publications@whitehouse.gov
Subject:
topic nafta
EOT
%->
Once the message has been sent with a topic request, a reply will
arrive with matching files listed, such as:
> ## Regarding your request:
> topic nafta
>
> To request copies of matched files, note the file number and
> request the file by number using the "sendfile" command. E.g.:
> sendfile 12031
>
> Matching Filenames:
> -------------------
> File-# Name
> 158737 pub/political-science/.cap/nafta (53 bytes)
> 168963 pub/political-science/nafta/full-text/surge.txt (3401 bytes)
> 169033 pub/political-science/nafta/full-text/.cache (6029 bytes)
> 168966 pub/political-science/nafta/full-text/chap-03.txt (94543 bytes)
Supposing you want a copy of the "surge.txt" file, you would
send a request to the publications server as follows:
%-> mail publications@whitehouse.gov
Subject:
send file 168963
EOT
%->
Anonymous FTP:
--------------
The publications area is available for anonymous FTP over the
internet. To access a file, FTP to whitehouse.gov, and log in as user
"anonymous". The FTP area is set up such that files are stored under
the same name as used by the mail responder. I.e.: The file in the
example above can be found in the FTP area as file:
pub/political-science/nafta/full-text/surge.txt
Comments:
---------
Comments relating to this service can be mailed to
publications-comments@whitehouse.gov
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Frederic W. Gleach (fwg1@cornell.edu)
Anthropology Department, Cornell University
(607) 255-6779
I long ago decided that anything that could be finished in my lifetime was
necessarily too small an affair to engross my full interest --Ernest Dewitt
Burton
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