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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 00:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432@mcimail.com>
Reply-To: Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432@mcimail.com>
Subject: Clinton Goes Online with E-Mail
Just reported today (6/2) on page F3 of {The Washington Post}:
"Move over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Bill Clinton has a second
address: president@whitehouse.gov".
Several paragraphs later, it reports:
"People who send complaints or praise by E-Mail won't reach the
president directly or jump the queue in getting attention. The
messages will be read by the White House correspondence staff, with
the same priority as paper letters.
A sampling will be show to the president and Vice President Al Gore,
who made White House E-Mail a personal priority. (His address:
vice.president@whitehouse.gov)."
"The White House already had addresses with three commercial E-Mail
services. Through them, it was receiving as many as 5,000 messages a
week." The article later points out that the messages were sent using
sneakernet, i.e. copied to diskette and carried by mail or courier.
In the article, it kept printing the E-Mail addresses such that the
line breaks kept making the system divide the messages as
"president@whi-tehouse.gov" or also, in the second place, the address
"vice.president@white-house.gov". So I decided to see if it really
was on line, or if the Post had made a mistake; I telnetted to
rs.internic.net and did a lookup:
Whois: whois whitehouse.gov
Executive Office of the President USA (WHITEHOUSE-HST) 198.137.240.100
WHITEHOUSE.GOV Whitehouse Public Access (WHITEHOUSE-DOM)
Whois: whitehouse-dom
Whitehouse Public Access (WHITEHOUSE-DOM)
Executive Office of the President USA
Office of Administration
Room NEOB 4208
725 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20503
Domain Name: WHITEHOUSE.GOV
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Fox, Jack S. (JSF) fox_j@EOP.GOV
(202) 395-7323
Record last updated on 26-May-93.
Domain servers in listed order:
WHITEHOUSE.GOV 198.137.240.100
NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3
whois:
The article mentions that selected items will be shown to the
President and the Vice President directly. So here's your chance to
send positive comments directly as E-Mail, or, if desired, to vent
your spleen without delay!
Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
********* This information was published in the internet
magazine "Telecom Digest" (comp.dcomp.telecom).*********