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a bit more on the Whitehouse email
From: Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432 () mcimail com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 00:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
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
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