From: ronda@ais.org (Ronda Hauben)
Subject: Re: E-Mail Access to Congress (Was Re: Clinton Office Requests Comments
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 05:35:48 EST
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I called both Representative William Ford's office (he is the head
of the House Comm on Labor) and Representative Conyers' offices
today and asked them for an email address for the Representatives.

Someone from Representative Ford's office called me back from 
Washington later in the day and said that I was premature
asking for an email address. He said it would be six months
before the whole hill would have email addresses and that there
was a special house information service that was involved with a 
few Congressmen before that.

He wanted to know where I heard about Congress having email addresses.
And he said that he had been told that hhe would eventually have
his choice of either a connection to the internet or x.400 for
mail.

When I asked for the email address for a Congressman who was 
connected to the internet now, he said he'd get back to me. He
never did.

Also, when I called Representative Conyers' office. The aide there
said that she knew nothing about email. In the 5 years she'd worked
there no one had ever asked for an email so the Congressman
had no need for one.

I said I was asking for one and that there was a net connecting
Congress and constituents should have access to it.

She promised to have someone from the Washington office call
me. She never did. When I called her back later, she said that
she'd been busy but she'd get to me tomorrow.

Does anyone know which Congresspeople are currently accessible?

Or if there is currently a special program ongoing?

Strange to have the aides claim such ignorance of it all.

Peter Marks (marks@halcyon.com) wrote:
: jganson@stein.u.washington.edu (Jeffrey Ganson) writes:
: 
: >>I've gotten a postmaster address for email for Congress. It is
: >> Postmstr@hr.house.gov
: 
: >Is this address for both the House and Senate?
: 
: 1: whois house.gov
: 
Has anyone tried to send email to any of the addresses listed below?
It should be possible to get a response from someone about what is
happening with email access. It does seem that this is being
treated by the Representative's aides that I talked to today as
if it is top secret information.

: House Information Systems (HOUSE-DOM)
:    House Annex II
:    2nd and D Streets SW
:    Washington DC 20515
: 
:    Domain Name: HOUSE.GOV
: 
:    Administrative Contact:
:       Collins, Bud  (BC263)  bud@oxygen.HOUSE.GOV
:       (202) 226-6280
:    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
:       Schnizlein, John  (JS592)  johns@oxygen.HOUSE.GOV
:       (202) 226-6290
: 
:    Record last updated on 14-Aug-92.
: 
:    Domain servers in listed order:
: 
:    NITROGEN.HOUSE.GOV		137.18.128.1
:    ICM1.ICP.NET			192.94.207.66
: 
: 
: To see this host record with registered users, repeat the command with
: a star ('*') before the name; or, use '%' to show JUST the registered users.
: 
: 2: whois senate.gov
: 
: No match for "SENATE.GOV".
: 
: 
: -- 
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  I wonder why there is no match for senate? 

              ronda

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