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Computer underground Digest Thu Feb 9, 1995 Volume 7 : Issue 11
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Copy Icecreamer: B. Robbins
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CONTENTS, #7.11 (Thu, Feb 9, 1995)
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File 1--Intro to Jim Warren Special Issue
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File 2--GovAccess.098v2: ACTION NEEDED ASAP! re public access to fed rcds
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File 3--GovAccess.097: Attn!; Econ Bull; MuniNet; Nat'l Press Contacts
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File 4--GovAccess.096: VA *Action*; IRS Eyes; Congr.FTP; WV; NY; Privy
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File 5--Cu Digest Header Information (unchanged since 25 Nov 1994)
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CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
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THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE.
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 22:51:19 CST
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From: CuD Moderators <cudigest@mindvox.phantom.com>
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Subject: File 1--Intro to Jim Warren Special Issue
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Jim Warren's contributions to cyberspace are well known to
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old-timers. Newcomers, however, might not be aware that he is
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probably the person most singularly responsible for pushing
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state and federal government toward Net accessibility, for
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keeping us all abreast of critical government-access issues,
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and for generally serving as a conduit for timely news and
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information about legislation and policy issues of cyber-relevance.
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Because of time and space, we can't always run as much of Jim's
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work as we'd like. But, with an occasional special issue, we can
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share is works with both new-comers and his long-time fans.
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:18:26 -0800
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.SF.CA.US>
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Subject: File 2--GovAccess.098v2: ACTION NEEDED ASAP! re public access to fed rc
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ds
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This needs action THIS WEEK!
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[Apologies if you who are on the regular GovAccess list receive more
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than one copy of this. It's HIGHLY TIME-SENSITIVE. I sent it
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yesterday morning to my new automated listserv but apparently it's
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bottled-up somewhere. So, I am resending it via my old, semi-manual
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GovAccess distribution system.]
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This concerns an information-supressing amendment that is being jambed
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through Congress *FAST* - probably THIS WEEK - by powerful lobbyists who
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have spent a fortune on this and apparently don't *want* any careful public
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deliberative process, much less a fair opportunity for public input.
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It not only voids public access to federal court records in their modern
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form; it severely endangers the now-potent federal Freedom of Information
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Act (FOIA).
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This is longer than usual about a single topic because it is an EMERGENCY
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ACTION ALERT and needs to provide adequate information on which to base an
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informed decision, and the contact-information needed for *immediate*
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effective action.
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Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:07:32 -0500
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From: xxxxx@clark.net [blanked his id because I didn't have time to get
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his permission to repost with his identity --jim]
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Jim, read the whole post and take a special look at the 'graph below:
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>Indeed, if Oliver North had used
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>a private contractor for the White House email system, those
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>records would appear to be off limits to both FOIA and a
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>government supeana. Moreover, the provison would apply even in
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>cases where the firm did not have a copyright or any other
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>protectable intellectually property right, a huge change in
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>federal law.
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>
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I wouldn't be surprised if White House aides were already using a private
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system for some sensitive records. Just a hunch. At any rate you can bet
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that officials from both parties won't shy away from taking advantage of
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this loophole if it opens up. Thanks to telnet, ftp and whatnot, of course,
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the contractor's computers could be anywhere. For all I know, maybe the
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contractor could be outside the country (I haven't any idea what the
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procurement regs would say on this).
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I'd love to find out about Gingrich's own possible involvement in the bill.
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It mocks everything he's said about the need for electronic democracy.
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Having fought some pretty nasty FOIA battles in my time, I feel a little too
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much deju vu.
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Be interesting to see what the White House policy is on this stuff. I won't
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get my hopes up. This could well be a bipartisan effort against the citizenry.
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>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 05:38:23 -0500
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>Errors-To: tap-info-owner@essential.org
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>Originator: tap-info@essential.org
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>From: James Love <love@essential.org>
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>Subject--Help! West Publishing seeks broad change in FOIA
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>
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>TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE
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>CROWN JEWELS CAMPAIGN - Juris, Legal Information
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>February 7, 1995
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>We need help from everyone!!!!!!!! Please distribute this
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>widely. jamie love (love@tap.org, 610/658-0880 or 202/387-8030)
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>
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>- Hearings set for today (Tuesday February 7) on bill
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> containing special interest provision for West Publishing.
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> Hearings will be held before the subcommittee on "Regulatory
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> Affairs."
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>
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>- House republicans have slated quick action on the bill.
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> Subcommittee Mark-up is set for thursday and full committee
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> mark-up is set for friday. (Telephone and Fax numbers of
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> committee members given below)
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>
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>- House republicans introduce legislation with a section
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> requested by West Publishing that will provide sweeping
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> changes in federal freedom of information act, and prevent
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> federal agencies from creating a public database that use
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> the West Publishing page numbers to reference case law.
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>
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>- The "West Provision" would also end its lawsuit with Tax
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> Analyst, a Virginia publisher, who is seeking access to the
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> Department of Justice JURIS database of court decisions in
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> order to put the information into the public domain. Tax
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> Analysts alleges the JURIS database of court decisions are
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> subject to FOIA and not protected by copyright. A victory
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> by Tax Analysts in this case will lead to a public domain
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> database of federal court decisions.
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>
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>- The West Provision in the legislation would extend far
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> beyond West Publishing's struggle to maintain its grip on
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> the market for legal information. It would exclude all
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> contractor generated records from the federal Freedom of
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> Information Act. Examples of databases that would be
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> affected by provision would be the SEC's EDGAR database and
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> the Department of Education ERIC database.
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>
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>- Help needed in removing this special interest provision.
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> Telephone and fax numbers for the Subcommittee on Regulatory
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> Affairs are given below.
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>
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>>From best we can determine, the so called "Paperwork Reduction
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>Act" bill was introduced late yesterday or will be introduced
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>early today. We do not have a bill number yet. There will be a
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>hearing on today (Tuesday February 7) before the "Subcommittee on
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>National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory
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>Affairs," more commonly referred to as the subcommittee on
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>"Regulatory Affairs." Subcommittee Mark-up is set for thursday
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>and full committee (the apparently misnamed Committee on
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>Government Reform and Oversight) mark-up is set for friday.
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>
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>A provision in this bill [Section 3518 (f) of the "Chairman's
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>Mark"] would do the following.
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> If any person "adds value" to public information, the
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> federal government would not have "any right to obtain,
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> collect, acquire, disseminate, use or convert," the
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> data, database or information product, or "any method
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> used by the person to identify such resulting data,
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> databases or information product," except "under terms
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> that are expressly agreed to by such person."
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>
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>This provision is being sold as a simple restatement of the law,
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>but that is a far from true (or more bluntly, a lie). The
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>provision in the bill is so broad that it covers all contractor
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>performed work on behalf of agencies, and effectively exempts
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>contractor generated records from the federal Freedom of
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>Information Act (FOIA). For example, since LEXIS "adds value" to
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>the EDGAR database by taking the incomming filings from the
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>government and putting them in a database, even if the government
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>had a copy of the database, it could not dissmeinate the records
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>without the consent of LEXIS. Likewise, many databases, such as
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>the Department of Education ERIC database, are largely put
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>together by private contactors. Indeed, if Oliver North had used
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>a private contractor for the White House email system, those
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>records would appear to be off limits to both FOIA and a
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>government supeana. Moreover, the provison would apply even in
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>cases where the firm did not have a copyright or any other
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>protectable intellectually property right, a huge change in
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>federal law.
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>
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>The provision would specifically apply to an active federal
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>lawsuit between West Publishing and Tax Analysts, over the
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>Department of Justice JURIS database. West Publishing was a
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>contractor on JURIS, an online system run by the Department of
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>Justice, which contains several decades of federal court
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>decisions. West Publishing is trying to prevent Tax Analysts
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>from obtaining copies of court decisions contained in the
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>government's JURIS database. Tax Analyst believes the records
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>are subject to FOIA, and not protected by copyright. If Tax
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>Analysts (fmi, Tom Field, 703/533-4400 or Eleanor Lewis 301/652-
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>3453) wins the law suit, which has been very expensive, it plans
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>to put the data into the public domain, creating a public
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>database of federal court decisions -- something that West
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>Publishing is fighting against. Moreover, the West assertion of
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>its copyright of legal citations is being challenged in federal
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>court in New York by Hyperlaw, a small CD-ROM publisher (fmi,
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>Alan Sugarman, President, 212/877-1371, sugarman@panix.com). If
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>Sugarman wins his case, the West provision would prevent the
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>Department of Justice from using the West citations in a public
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>database.
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>
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> WHAT CAN YOU DO?
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>
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>We are asking people to send a brief message by fax the members
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>to the full committee, asking Congress to delete the special
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>interest provison for West Publishing.
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>
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>
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> Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
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> 104th Congress
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>
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>** = Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources,
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> and Regulatory Affairs
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>
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>REPUBLICAN
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>William Clinger, Jr. (PA) 225-5121 225-4681
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>Benjamin Gilman, (NY) 225-3776 225-2541
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>Dan Burton, (IA) 225-2276 225-0016
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>Constance Morella, (MD) 225-5341 225-1389
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>Christopher Shays, (CO) 225-5541 225-9629
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>Steven Schiff, (NM) 225-6316 225-4975
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>Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (FL) 225-3931 225-5620
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>William Zeliff, Jr. (NH) 225-5456 225-4370
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>John McHugh, (NY) ** 225-4611 226-0621
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>Stephen Horn, (CA) 225-6676 226-1012
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>John Mica, (FL) 225-4035 226-0821
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>Peter Blute, (MA) 225-6101 225-2217
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>Thomas Davis, (VA) 225-1492 225-3071
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>David McIntosh, (IA) 225-3021 225-3382
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>Jon Fox, (PA) ** 225-6111 225-3155
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>Randy Tate, (WA) ** 225-8901 225-3484
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>Dick Chrysler, (MI) 225-4872 225-3034
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>Gil Gutknecht, (MN) ** 225-2472 225-3246
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>Mark Souder, (IA) 225-4436 225-3479
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>William Martini, (NJ) 225-5751 225-3372
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>Joe Scarborough, (FL) ** 225-4136 225-3414
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>John Shadegg, (AZ) ** 225-3361 225-3462
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>Michael Flanagan, (IL) 225-4061 225-3128
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>Charles Bass, (NH) 225-5206 225-2946
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>Steve LaTourette, (OH) 225-5731 225-3307
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>Mark Sanford, (SC) 225-3176 225-3407
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>Robert Ehrlich, Jr. (MD) ** 225-3061 225-3094
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>DEMOCRAT
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>
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>Cardiss Collins, (IL) 225-5006 225-8396
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>Henry Waxman, (CA) ** 225-3976 225-4099
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>Tom Lantos, (CA) 225-3531 225-7900
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>Robert Wise, Jr. (WV) 225-2711 225-7856
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>Major Owens, (NY) 225-6231 226-0112
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>Edolphus Towns, (NY) 225-5936 225-1018
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>John Spratt, Jr. (SC) ** 225-5501 225-0464
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>Louise Slaughter, (NY) ** 225-3615 225-7822
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>Paul Kanjorski, (PA) ** 225-6511 225-0764
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>Gary Condit, (CA) ** 225-6131 225-0819
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>Collin Peterson, (MN) ** 225-2165 225-1593
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>Karen Thurman, (FL) 225-1002 226-0329
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>Carolyn Maloney, (NY) 225-7944 225-4709
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>Thomas Barrett, (WI) 225-3571 225-2185
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>Gene Taylor, (MI) 225-5772 225-7074
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>Barbara Rose Collins, (MI) 225-2261 225-6645
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>Eleanor Holmes Norton, (DC) 225-8050 225-3002
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>James P. Moran, (VA) 225-4376 225-0017
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>Gene Green, (TX) 225-1688 225-9903
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>Carrie Meek, (FL) 225-4506 226-0777
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>Frank Mascara, (PA) 225-4665 225-3377
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>Chaka Fattah, (PA) 225-4001 225-6466
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>INDEPENDENT
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>Bernard Sanders, (VT) 225-4115 225-6790
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>
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>
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>Key Administration Officials:
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>
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>OMB
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>
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>Sally Katzen voice: 202/395-4852
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> sally.katzen@eop.sprint.com
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>
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>Bruce McConnell voice: 202/395-3785
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> bruce.mcconnell@eop.sprint.com
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>Department of Justice
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>Paul Friedman voice: 202/514-1721
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> friedman@justice.doj.gov
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>
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>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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>TAP-INFO is an Internet Distribution List provided by the Taxpayer
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>Assets Project (TAP). TAP was founded by Ralph Nader to monitor the
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>management of government property, including information systems and
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>data, government funded R&D, spectrum allocation and other government
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>assets. TAP-INFO reports on TAP activities relating to federal
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>information policy. tap-info is archived at ftp and gopher at
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>essential.org and cpsr.org.
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>
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>Subscription requests to tap-info to listproc@tap.org with
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>the message: subscribe tap-info your name
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>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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>Taxpayer Assets Project; P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
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>v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176; internet: tap@tap.org
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 20:20:13 -0800
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.SF.CA.US>
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Subject: File 3--GovAccess.097: Attn!; Econ Bull; MuniNet; Nat'l Press Contacts
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GovAccess About to Move to an Automated Listserv [details real soon now]
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I am about to switch GovAccess from my current, masochistic, semi-manual
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operation, to a standard-style, automated listserv - as soon as I finish
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updating its addressee lists. This should be completed within a day or
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two.
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At that time, I will announce details in the next GovAccess, sent this ol'
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fashioned way, and send a test-message to the new listserv. If it and I
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survive the transition, the changeover will be complete by mid-week. --jim
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First You Have to Get Their Attention ...
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[IT MIGHT BE USEFUL TO CIRCULATE THIS WIDELY!]
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As of mid-January, ten of the nation's 100 Senators and about half of the
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U.S. Representatives had public email addresses.
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But it's *widely* known that many local, state and federal elected
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officials and their staff routinely ignore or functionally-disregard
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communications that come from anyone other than (a) people in their
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districts, (b) "important" people and (c) lobbyists and donors, anywhere.
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Email provides an interesting option:
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1. Your email addr often gives little indication of where you are located
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- especially on those systems that have national and global users.
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2. Your eaddr rarely gives any indication of whether you are "important" -
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leaving the possibility open that you *may* have numerous contacts in an
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elected representative's district ... all the more possible, once
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politicians begin to realize that the Internet provides us with free, fast
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global broadcasting.
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So - if you don't help 'em identify how inconsequential you are, and don't
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tell 'em that you live somewhere far-distant from their voters ... then
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they may be more-likely to consider your comments as *possibly* being from
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one of their constituents, and *possibly* from someone who can influence
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voters in their district.
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Their attention to your comments is appropriate - regardless of where in
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the nation you live - since their votes usually impact *all* citizens,
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pervasively. (This - and the issues of freedom of expression - are also
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worth keeping in mind, when we are tempted to seek prohibitions against
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out-of-district political donations and "outsider" campaign assistance.)
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--jim
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Enlightening Tidbits About Washington's "Legislative English"
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 08:15:31 PST
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From: "John Broughton" <John_Broughton@ccmail.lbl.gov>
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[responding to some of my naive/uninformed questions re debt & deficit -j]
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"Authorizes" has a very specific (and different) meaning for the federal
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government (the normal sequence of events is authorize, appropriate,
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commit, obligate, expend; the deficit is measured at the "obligate" point).
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[I *trust* this source - Masters in Public Policy, Doctoral Fellow at the
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US GAO, primary author of a GAO report, 20 yerars in federal work, now with
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Internal Audit Services at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. --jim]
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Department of Commerce Economic Bulletin Board Has Public Access
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From: d.wiesner@genie.geis.com
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 07:17:00 UTC
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Economic Bulletin Board: Department of Commerce system provides access to
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thousands of data files, more than 700 of them updated daily. Includes
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information about current economic conditions, economic indicators,
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employment, foreign trade, monetary matters and more in 20 general subject
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areas.
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Path: telnet ebb.stat- usa.gov / userid:guest (2/94).
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Path: gopher gopher.lib.umich.edu / social sciences resources / economics
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(2/94).
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Path: telnet una.hh.lib.umich.edu / login:gopher / social sciences
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resources / economics (2/94).
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MuniNet - FinanceNet's List for City Managers
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Mon, 30 Jan 1995 17:08:27 CST
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From: brich@nsf.gov
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FinanceNet has recently added a new public listserv mailing list,
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coordinated by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, titled
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"MuniNet". This is a distribution and discussion list for issues relating
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to financial accountability and stewardship of municipalities, towns and
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townships within larger geopolitical jurisdictions. As in the
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"state-county" list, documents and discussions will broadly relate to
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accounting matters, bonds, revenues and taxation, budgets, systems, fees,
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licenses, audits, controls, payroll, and all other issues of interest to
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clerks, and other local gov't financial management staff and taxpayers.
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This list will also provide a communications medium for the membership and
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agenda issues for the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, and
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other local gov't professional organizations.
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To subscribe to the MuniNet list, send the email message (no subject
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necessary) to listproc@financenet.gov with the following in the BODY:
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FinanceNet seeks to achieve these goals by (1) encouraging dialog for the
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Contact Vectors for the Fourth Estate of Government
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 18:42:57 -0800
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From: Andre Bacard <abacard@well.sf.ca.us>
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Attached is a media list that you might want for your GovAccess online
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newsletter. This material is a gift from Char Roberts, a generous Bay Area
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fellow who's at <croberts@crl.com>.
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Char writes:
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My list is ... also available via anonymous ftp at
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ftp.crl.com/users/ro/croberts/tvfax.txt. Updates
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encouraged!
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[Also appended is a listing of broadcast media in the Washington DC area.]
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TV PROGRAMS - ADDRESS/PHONE/FAX
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NBC CBS
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DATELINE-NBC 48-HOURS-CBS
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------------ ------------
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30 Rockefeller Plaza #510 555 West 57th Street
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New York, NY 10112 New York, NY 10019
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212-664-4444 212-975-4321
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212-664-7073 FAX 212-975-5797 FAX
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MEET THE PRESS-NBC 60-MINUTES-CBS
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4001 Nebraska Avenue, NW 524 West 57th Street
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Washington, DC 20016 New York, NY 10019
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202-885-4598 516-324-5748
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02-966-4544 FAX
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NOW with TOM BROKAW CBS THIS MORNING
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& KATIE COURIC ----------------
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------------------- 524 West 57th Street
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30 Rockefeller Plaza #304 New York, NY 10019
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New York, NY 10112 212-975-3605
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212-664-4444 212-975-2115 FAX
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212-664-7355 FAX
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FACE THE NATION-CBS
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TODAY SHOW-NBC -------------------
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-------------- 2020 M Street
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30 Rockefeller Plaza #304 Washington, DC 20036
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New York, NY 10112 202-457-4481
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212-664-4444 202-457-1533 FAX
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212-664-6447 FAX
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MAURY POVICH-CBS
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TONIGHT SHOW-NBC ----------------
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---------------- 221 West 26th Street
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3000 West Alameda #2190 New York, NY 10112
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Burbank, CA 91523 212-989-8800
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818-840-2240 FAX 212-255-6646 FAX
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ABC PBS
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20/20-ABC MACNIEL/LEHRER NEWSHOUR-PBS
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--------- ---------------------------
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147 Columbus Avenue 3620 South 27th Street
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New York, NY 10112 Arlington, VA 22206
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212-456-7777 703-998-2810 or 2844
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212-456-2969 FAX 703-845-1458 FAX
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DAY ONE-ABC CHARLIE ROSE SHOW-PBS
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147 Columbus Avenue 356 West 56th Street
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New York, NY 10023 New York, NY 10019
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212-456-7777 212-560-2909
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212-560-6970 FAX
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DONAHUE SHOW-ABC DAVID FROST SHOW-PBS
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---------------- --------------------
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30 Rockefeller Plaza #827 P.O. Box 2626
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New York, NY 10112 Washington, DC 20012
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212-664-6518 703-998-2626
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310-275-5670
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA-ABC MCLAUGLIN GROUP-PBS
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1717 DeSales St., NW 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW
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Washington, DC 20036 Washington, DC 20036
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202-887-7360 202-457-0870
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202-887-7685 FAX 202-296-2285 FAX
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NIGHTLINE-ABC FRONTLINE-PBS
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1717 DeSales St., NW WGBH BOSTON
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Washington, DC 20036 125 Western Ave
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202-887-7360 Boston, MA
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202-887-7976 FAX 617-492-2777
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800-328-PBS1 VIDEOTAPES
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303-831-9000 TRANSCRIPTS
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PRIME TIME WITH SAM DONALDSON-AC
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--------------------------------- Note: PBS programs receive taxpayer
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1717 DeSales St., NW funding from the Corporation for
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Washington, DC 20036 Public Broadcasting.
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202-222-7090 CPB, Second Floor
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202-222-7343 FAX 901 E Street NW
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Washington, DC 20004-2006
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COMPLAINTS:
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CPB/Office of Inspector
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General
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202-879-9669
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CNN C-SPAN
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--- ------
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One CNN Center 400 North Capitol St., NW
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Atlanta, GA 30348-5366 Suite 650
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404-827-1782 Washington, DC 20001
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404-827-1593 FAX 202-737-3220
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202-737-6226 FAX
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LARRY KING LIVE-CNN
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820 1st Street, NE
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11th Floor
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Washington, DC 20002
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202-898-7911
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202-898-7923 FAX
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INSIDER POLITICS-CNN
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[K820 1st Street, NE
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11th Floor
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Washington, DC 20002
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202-898-7911
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202-842-5180 FAX
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CROSSFIRE-CNN
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820 1st Street, NE
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11th Floor
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Washington, DC 20002
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202-898-7911
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202-898-7611 FAX
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List of Broadcast Media Outlets in Washington, DC
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ABC News
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1717 DeSales St., NW
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Washington, DC 20036
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Phone: 202-222-7777
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Fax: 202-222-7686 or 7684
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Bureau Chief: Robin Sproul
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ABC Radio News
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1717 DeSales St., NW
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Washington, DC 20036
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Phone: 202-222-7630
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Bureau Chief: Richard Rosenbaum
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BET-TV
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1899 9th St., NE
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Washington, DC 20018
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Phone: 202-636-2803
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Fax: 202-529-4009
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News Director: Deborah Tang
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CNN
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820 1st St., NE
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Washington, DC 20002
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Phone: 202-898-7900
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Fax: 202-898-7565
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Bureau Chief: William W. Headline
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Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN)
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400 N. Capitol St., NW #650
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Washington, DC 20001
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Phone: 202-737-3220
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Fax: 202-737-6226
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Director of Programming: Terry Murphy
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CBS News
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2000 M St., NW
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Washington, DC 20036
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Phone: 202-457-4444
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Fax: 202-457-4344
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Bureau Chief: Barbara Cochran
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CBS Radio
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2020 M St., NW
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Washington, DC 20036
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Phone: 202-457-4366
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Fax: 202-659-5578
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Bureau Chief: Gerome Navies
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Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)
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1825 K St., NW, #917
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Washington, DC 20006
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Phone: 202-467-5400
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Fax: 202-467-5610
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Bureau Chief: Glenn Rochkind
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Fox Television Stations, Inc.
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5151 Wisconsin Ave, NW
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Washington, DC 20016
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Phone: 202-895-3000
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Fax: 202-895-3133
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NBC-TV
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4001 Nebraska Avenue, NW
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Washington, DC 20016
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Phone: 202-885-4200
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Fax: 202-362-2009
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Bureau Chief: Tim Russert
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National Public Radio
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635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
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Washington, DC 20001
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Phone: 202-414-3232
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 20:40:06 -0800
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@WELL.SF.CA.US>
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Subject: File 4--GovAccess.096: VA *Action*; IRS Eyes; Congr.FTP; WV; NY; Privy
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46-Million Msgs per Year; 270-Million Population - Some Folks Write Often!
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Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:36:15 -0500 (EST)
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>From Grace A York <graceyor@umich.edu>
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One of our doctoral students says Congress receives 46 million pieces of
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mail per year!
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Virginia *ACTION ALERT*!!: Feb.4th Vote on Access to State Legislative Info
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 15:22:33 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Richard P. Klau" <KLAURICH@uofrlaw.urich.edu>
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I've sent the following announcement out to Usenet - it slipped through two
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committees w/o so much as a voice against it. Also, it has been upgraded to
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a "prototype" bill, or whatever they call it - now, instead of a study, it
|
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would require the creation of a prototype of the system to then be
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implemented for full access in the next term.
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The Virginia General Assembly is about to vote on House Joint Resolution
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482, named "Internet Study" by its sponsor, Delegate Steve Newman. HJ 482
|
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was originally intended to be a "study bill" which would have required a
|
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study of the feasability of providing Internet access to Virginia's
|
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legislative information.
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However, HJ 482 has been "upgraded" so that if it passes, the State will be
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required to develop a prototype of such a system. If successful, the
|
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prototype would be converted to a full system for Virginians in the next
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legislative session.
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The bill is on the floor of the House of Delegates and debate will occur on
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Saturday, February 4, 1995. A vote will most likely take place on Monday,
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February 6, 1995.
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Delegate Newman's legislative aide Curt Diemer indicates that the general
|
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reaction to the bill has been positive. However, there has been no
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indication to the General Assembly that Virginians like you and me will
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actually use such a system.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO
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The General Assembly has one fax number for the Delegates. If you do not
|
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know who your Delegate is, call Delegate Newman's office and ask Curt
|
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Diemer who represents your area. Fax your Delegate stating your support of
|
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HJ 482, and state why - *briefly*. [One page is about the right length. -j]
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This has to happen NOW! The vote will happen within a few days. The Fax
|
|
number for the House of Delegates is: (804)786-6310
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|
|
If you have any more questions about this bill, please feel free to contact
|
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me. A listserv at the Electronic Frontier Foundation is in the process of
|
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being set up and I will send information out once it is finalized.
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|
Richard P. Klau
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2L, University of Richmond
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TC Williams School of Law
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klaurich@uofrlaw.urich.edu
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Note: I am not speaking for the University.
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[This seems to be moving *awfully* fast by legislative standards. Hmmm.
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BEWARE!!! - Two major potential "gotchas: Someone needs to check the exact
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text in this bill *immediately* - to make sure that it explicitly
|
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*prohibits* any state agency from charging access fees for access to these
|
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crucial public legislative records, and that it explicitly *permits* re-use
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and re-distribution of copies of any and all such records as soon as they
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are made available, for free or for fee, by individuals, publishers,
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nonprofit organizations and commercial entrepreneurs. --jim]
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IRS Initiates Massive New Database - Item [6] from the EPIC Alert (below)
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On December 20, the Internal Revenue Service announced in the Federal
|
|
Register that it was planning a new database to monitor compliance of
|
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taxpayers in a project entitled Compliance 2000. The database would contain
|
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information on all individuals in the U.S. who conduct certain financial
|
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transactions and would be segmented by different criteria:
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Any individual who has business and/or financial
|
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activities. These may be grouped by industry, occupation,
|
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or financial transactions, included in commercial
|
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databases, or in information provided by state and local
|
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licensing agencies.
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|
|
The new database will combine private and public sector databases in a
|
|
single searchable entity. A number of federal financial databases from the
|
|
IRS will be enhanced with state, local and commercial sources. The Federal
|
|
Register notice describes the non-tax databases:
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|
|
|
Examples of other information would include data
|
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from commercial databases, any state's Department
|
|
of Motor Vehicles (DMV), credit bureaus, state and
|
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local real estate records, commercial publications,
|
|
newspapers, airplane and pilot information, U.S.
|
|
Coast Guard vessel registration information, any
|
|
state's Department of Natural Resources
|
|
information, as well as other state and local
|
|
records. In addition, Federal government databases
|
|
may also be accessed, such as, federal employment
|
|
files, federal licensing data, etc.
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|
|
|
Finally, even though the proposed system would use frequently inaccurate
|
|
"commercial databases" such as direct marketing records, taxpayers would
|
|
not be able to review their records to ensure that they are accurate and up
|
|
to date: "This system is exempt from the access and contest provisions of
|
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the Privacy Act."
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|
|
|
EPIC is filing comments asking the IRS to reconsider its use of commercial
|
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databases and to ensure that there are greater safeguards on the collection
|
|
and use of personal information.
|
|
|
|
A copy of the Federal Register notice is available at cpsr.org
|
|
/cpsr/privacy/epic/IRS_compliance_2000_notice_txt Comments on the proposed
|
|
system must be received by January 19, 1995, and sent to Office of
|
|
Disclosure, Internal Revenue Service, 1111 Conn. Ave, NW, Washington, DC
|
|
20224. EPIC's Comments are available at cpsr.org
|
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/cpsr/privacy/epic/epic_irs_compliance_2000_comments.txt .
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&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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Congressional Vectors in Database Format - Available by FTP
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Sat, 28 Jan 1995 17:50:36 -0800 (PST)
|
|
>From "Janet E. Harrison" <tat@well.sf.ca.us>
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|
|
|
I have put together databases in various file formats for the House and
|
|
the Senate. I have sent them to Jeff Chan for putting into his ftp
|
|
directory. The files include fields for LName, FName, Party, State,
|
|
District, Chamber, Room, OfficeBuilding, Zip, email, voicephone, and
|
|
fax. There are also separate files that have only names and fax numbers
|
|
of members for whom I have numbers, without all the other fields, to make
|
|
them easy to import into faxmodem software's phonebooks.
|
|
|
|
The files are available in ascii comma-delimited format, WordPerfect 5.1
|
|
secondary merge file format, and WordPerfect Office Notebook format. The
|
|
fax-only files are only available in ascii comma-delimited format.
|
|
|
|
The fax numbers are more complete than those in Grace York's list at
|
|
U.Mich. I have emailed my list to her so she can update hers.
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|
|
|
The ftp site is: ftp://ftp.shell.portal.com/pub/chan/federal/104
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|
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[Now, about this list's monumental maintenance problem ... :-) --jim]
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West Virginia Apparently Offers *Modern* Copies of Its Public Records
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|
|
|
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:12:41 -0500
|
|
>From Wayne Lorentz <WCHSNews@AOL.COM> via Peter Sussman <pys@well.sf.ca.us>
|
|
To: Multiple recipients of list FOI-L <FOI-L@suvm.acs.syr.EDU>
|
|
[This is a Freedom-of-Information listserv. --jim]
|
|
|
|
A surprising Diamond in the search for information is the state of West
|
|
Virginia. According to the FOI law, if the information you are looking for
|
|
is in a form other than paper copy, it must be provided to you in that
|
|
form, if you request.
|
|
To quote (Hey, I'm a journalist - it's more than a habit - it's a nervous tick)
|
|
|
|
SS29B-1-3-3
|
|
"...if the records requested exist in magnetic, electronic, or computer
|
|
form, the custodian of the records shall make such copies available on
|
|
magnetic or electronic media, if so requested."
|
|
|
|
That quote is from an earlier version (I keep the most recent one at work).
|
|
The current rendition has been expanded from magnetic media to films,
|
|
slides, overheads, etc... Very nice, indeed, especially after the horror
|
|
stories I've heard in other states.
|
|
|
|
As an example, I was doing a project on fraud. So I started with a list of
|
|
all the not-for-profit groups registered in the state. To print it out
|
|
would have been over one hundred pages. However, since the list is stored
|
|
in a Paradox database on their IBM computers, I was able to get a copy of
|
|
the file on a computer disk. I used the Quattro Pro spreadsheet to look at
|
|
and manipulate the data (since I don't have a database program).
|
|
|
|
Very helpful, and saved me money over the "reasonable cost" of duplication
|
|
(they only charged $5 for the whole thing.) [ <===!!! WOW! --jim]
|
|
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|
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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|
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|
|
|
New York State Government Documents Online Library, Apparently Fee-Free
|
|
|
|
>From john.perz@hvbbs.com (John Perz)
|
|
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 01:35:54 GMT
|
|
|
|
The Legislative Gazette is a weekly newspaper covering the New York State
|
|
Government put out by journalism & political science majors at State
|
|
University of New York at Albany.
|
|
|
|
In the January 23 issue, in a special section on the New York State
|
|
Library, the following appeared:
|
|
|
|
" . . . NYSDOC is a mailing list for New York State government documents
|
|
and information issues. To subscribe, send a message to
|
|
listproc@unix2.nysed.gov with message "subscribe NYSDOC firstname
|
|
lastname". To post messages, send to nysdoc@unix2.nysed.gov The contact
|
|
person for the list is David Gosda, New York State Library,
|
|
david@unix2.nysed.gov (518-473-6297)."
|
|
|
|
"As a viable and necessary component of external information management,
|
|
the State Library in cooperation with the State Archives and Records
|
|
Administration is developing a prototype government Information Locator
|
|
System (ILS). The ILS provides descriptive histories and organizational
|
|
information about all 75 state agencies. It is accessible over the Internet
|
|
(unix2.nysed.gov) and includes connections to executive, legislative, and
|
|
judicial information servers (gophers) as well as government information
|
|
sources such as the New York State OGS Contract Database and the Rural
|
|
Assistance Information Network."
|
|
|
|
"Joseph F.Shubert, state librarian and assistant commissioner for
|
|
libraries, explained that "the New York State Library is ready to receive
|
|
New York State publications in electronic format and make them available
|
|
via the Internet, under the provision of chapter 331 of the Laws of 1994."
|
|
This summer, legislation was signed requiring state agencies to forward a
|
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machine-readable copy of all public documents recorded in electronic or
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machine-readable format to the New York State Library."
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Eating the Internal Revenue Code - A RoboGopher Progress Report
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Fri, 27 Jan 95 18:25:13 +0100
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>From <a *very* reliable friend>
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[In the last exciting episode, our hero was about to hack <not crack!> his
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Gopher source-code so it would *automatically* retrieve several thousand
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separate files that compose the Codes of interest.]
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My newly-born RoboGopher is now happily lapping up the 1994 Internal
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Revenue Code from the House Gopher server (hamilton1.house.gov), which has
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the *entire* U.S. Code on-line. Since the Internal Revenue code comprises
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just two of the 50 titles of the USC, and it's 22 megabytes, the mind
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boggles at how big the whole thing must be (though I suspect the IRC is
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more complicated than most).
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[I had commented, earlier, re such Gopher automation:]
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>>I'm surprised that it's not already>been done and splattered all over the
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>>net.
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I'm virtually certain something so obvious has been done dozens of times,
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but a check of the FAQs and a scan of the Gopher newsgroup turned up
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nothing other than one plaintive request for precisely what I was hoping to
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find--and no replies.
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What I've got is currently heroically ugly--the name of the directory where
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it puts the retrieved files is compiled into the program--but it required
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less than 50 lines of changes to the gopher client program to add recursive
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retrieval. You just navigate to the root of the material you want to
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retrieve and press "z". It walks through an arbitrarily deep hierarchy in
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order, saving each item to a file name consisting of a zero-filled number
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that increments from 1 to the number of files saved, followed by the item
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title converted into a Unix file name as Gopher currently does. It sleeps
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for 30 seconds between documents to avoid getting a reputation as a
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net.hog.
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If you run across somebody with a need for something like this (who doesn't
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mind rebuilding such programs from the source), let me know and I'll clean
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it up and send it their way.
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[UNIX HACKERS: I think this would be almost-exactly the tool needed to
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auto-fetch the thousands of separate files that compose the California
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Legislature's public archives of legislation, statutes and the
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constitution. Da? And, after the first humonguous sucking sound, probably
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this RoboRooter - used to dislodge what RotoRooters are usually used for -
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could be trivially-modified so as to fetch only those files that have been
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modified after a certain date.]
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After I finish updating the tax code, I'll probably also do the Patents,
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Copyrights, and Nationality titles if I can summon the courage to wade
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through more ugly ASCII.
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EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center - Lobbies DC; Informs US
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest research
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center in Washington, DC. It was established in 1994 to focus public
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attention on emerging privacy issues relating to the National Information
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Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal,
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medical record privacy, and the sale of consumer data. EPIC is sponsored by
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the Fund for Constitutional Government and Computer Professionals for
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Social Responsibility. EPIC publishes the EPIC Alert and EPIC Reports,
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pursues Freedom of Information Act litigation, and conducts policy research
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on emerging privacy issues.
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Example EPIC ALERT online newsletter contents: Volume 2.01, Jan. 18, 1995
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[1] Nader Speaks to Privacy Advocates
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[2] European Privacy Directive Moves Forward
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[3] EPIC Calls for Congressional FOIA
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[4] New DOJ Guidelines on Computer Search and Seizure
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[5] Court Dismisses LaMacchia Case
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[6] IRS Initiates New Database System
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[7] EPIC WWW Page and Digicash Donations
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[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events [...]
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The Fund for Constitutional Government is a non-profit organization
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established in 1974 to protect civil liberties and constitutional rights.
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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is a national membership
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organization of people concerned about the impact of technology on society.
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For information contact: cpsr-info@cpsr.org
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For more information, email info@epic.org, WWW at HTTP://epic.digicash.com
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/epic or write EPIC, 666 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 301, Washington, DC
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20003. (202) 544-9240 (tel), (202) 547-5482 (fax).
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The EPIC Alert is a free biweekly publication of the Electronic
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Privacy Information Center. To subscribe, send the message:
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SUBSCRIBE CPSR-ANNOUNCE Firstname Lastname
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Back issues are available via FTP/WAIS/Gopher/HTTP from cpsr.org
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"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain
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the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.
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... Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our
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liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very
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serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers
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of the event."
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- Samuel Adams ("patriot, statesman, brewer"), speech, 1771
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[via Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> ]
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