From: raisch@cthulhu.control.com (Rob Raisch)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Federal Register Now Available on Internet
Date: 20 Jan 93 16:08:21 GMT
Reply-To: raisch@cthulhu.control.com (Rob Raisch)
Originator: wtm@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com

Index Number: 27468

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(Disclaimer: Yes, I have an interest in this project.)
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                                                  Contact: Jonathan Robbins
                                                               800-998-4515
                             PRESS RELEASE
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COUNTERPOINT OFFERS FIRST DAILY FEDERAL REGISTER VIA INTERNET

CAMBRIDGE, MA. (Jan. 7, 1993) --        Counterpoint Publishing,
Inc. today announced a new service  providing  same-day
availability of the  complete Federal Register (FR)  via the
Internet,  the largest  data communications network in the world.
The Federal Register is an official  U.S. Government daily
publication containing  all proposed and final rules and notices
from more than 130 government agencies.

The Counterpoint  Federal  Register  service will  provide  the
fully indexed text of  the complete  Federal Register sourced  from
the  magnetic tapes provided daily by the U.S.  Government Printing
Office.  Articles  in the FR  contain,  for  example,  new EPA
regulations,  grant  and  funding opportunities,  Presidential
documents  and  hundreds of  other proposals, rules and meeting
notices each day.

Counterpoint's simplified  menu-driven  software allows  end-users
to view the daily Federal Register by table of contents, key words
in any  and exact order, article type, full-text or heading only,
agency, date or range of dates or citation.  The software does not
require graphical  interfaces, a mouse  or function  keys, thus
making it  east to  use on  a variety  of computing  platforms
such  as  IBM-compatibles,  Macintosh(tm),  Unix(tm), VMS(tm),
etc.  Routine searches can  be stored add replayed.  Documents  in
the FR are exportable in ASCII  format with text exportable to
E-mail,  any word processor, or printer.

Counterpoint will  also  provide  alternative access  to  the
Federal Register to  better  address  the  unique  needs  of  the
Global  Internet community.  Using such  distribution and access
mechanisms as  Usenet News (NNTP), Mail (SMTP), Gopher, WAIS and
the World Wide Web, Counterpoint will provide the daily Federal
Register in the most  cost efficient and  timely manner possible,
using the most up to date and powerful tools available  to the
network user.

The new  Counterpoint service  is  provided through  arrangement
with Internet.COM -  Internet Consulting Services  of  Cambridge,
MA.,  helping providers of goods and services develop  commercial
presence on  the Global Internet.

Counterpoint is  the  nation's  leading publisher  of  federal
source documents in electronic formats.   Several thousand
customers now use  the weekly CD-ROM  version of  the Federal
Register instead  of the  hardbound paper version.   Counterpoint
also  introduced recently  the complete  U.S.  Code of Federal
Regulations on Compact  Disc.  This  product will also  be made
available to the Global Internet in the future.

---   For more information, call Counterpoint at 800-998-4515 or via e-mail
on the Internet at fedreg@internet.com.