WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC ACCESS E-MAIL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Updated October 7, 1997 Version 4.1 WHAT'S NEW: - Updated White House Publications Info, Section IV. ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* Table Of Contents I. "Welcome to the White House" Web Site II. Sending Mail (E-mail, Postal) to the White House. - Internet Direct - World Wide Web (WWW) - Valid Addresses - Mail FROM: whitehouse.gov - Postal addresses III. Searching and Retrieving White House documents. - WWW - Publications@Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.GOV IV. Subscription Service for Daily Electronic Publications a. Direct E-mail Distribution - Subscription Service b. Cancel Subscriptions c. Copyright information on White House documents V. Sending E-mail to Congress; ftp and gopher - Internet Direct VI. Other Government Sources VII. President's Saturday Morning Radio Address - Local Broadcast VIII. Submitting Updates to the FAQ IX. Receiving Updates to the FAQ ******************************************************************** I. DOES THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE A WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) HOME PAGE? On October 20, 1994, President Clinton and Vice President Gore opened a service called "Welcome to the White House: An Interactive Citizens' Handbook" on the World Wide Web. To reach the White House "home page": URL: www.whitehouse.gov II. HOW DO I SEND MAIL (E-MAIL, POSTAL) TO THE WHITE HOUSE? E-mail: When you send an electronic message to the White House you will receive an immediate acknowledgment that your message has been received. THIS IS THE ONLY ELECTRONIC RESPONSE YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM WHITEHOUSE.GOV. If you include your street address in your message, you may receive a response by U.S. Mail. Please be assured that every electronic mail message received is read and analyzed by staff. You can send e-mail to the following addresses: Internet Direct: President@WhiteHouse.GOV Vice.President@WhiteHouse.GOV First.Lady@WhiteHouse.GOV WWW: President URL: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_President.html Vice-President URL: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_Vice_President.html First Lady URL: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_First_Lady.html There are no other personal e-mail addresses at whitehouse.gov. As stated before, the only e-mail generated from whitehouse.gov is the autoresponse to incoming messages. If you receive a piece of e-mail purporting to be from anyone other than autoresponder@whitehouse.gov, you have been spoofed. No other e-mail from whitehouse.gov is authentic. Postal Mail: The mailing address for the President and the First Lady is: The White House Washington, DC 20500 The mailing address for the Vice President and Mrs. Gore is: The White House Washington, DC 20501 You may send correspondence to other White House staff at the following mail address: The White House Washington, DC 20502 III. HOW DO I SEARCH AND RETRIEVE WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS? WWW: www.pub.whitehouse.gov/WH/Publications/html/Publications.html E-mail: We have established an Internet address for retrieving White House publications by e-mail. To receive instructions on using this server, send a message (with a subject line of "hello" and no text in the body of the message) to: Publications@Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov In the Subject line, type: hello IV. HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS BY THE WHITE HOUSE? The White House Communications office is distributing press releases over a system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. You can sign up to receive White House publications directly from the White House Publications system by using an automated e-mail server. IVa. DIRECT EMAIL DISTRIBUTION You can subscribe to Electronic Publications by the White House via electronic mail. This publications system allows you to fine-tune your subscription, using keys based on over 160 different categories, to include only specific kinds of documents and in specific subject areas. You can also control whether you receive the documents selected as they are released or all together once a day. Finally you can choose to receive entire documents, you may choose to get only summaries of the documents, which are written by the extension service of United States Department of Agriculture. INFORMATION: To find out more about this service By World Wide Web - www.pub.whitehouse.gov/WH/Publications/html/Publications.html By e-mail - send a message to: To: Publications@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Subject: Send instructions [This system replaces an older one that was reached through Publications@Research.ai.mit.edu.] IVb. CANCEL SUBSCRIPTIONS You can stop receiving e-mail releases by sending a CANCEL message to the Publications server. The word CANCEL would be followed by whatever distribution stream you wanted to drop. If you wanted to stop receiving all messages, then your mail would look like this: To: Publications@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Subject: Cancel All To be dropped from a specific distribution group, you could substitute for ALL in the above message any of a variety of options described below, including ECONOMY, SOCIAL, FOREIGN, HEALTH, SPEECHES, or NEWS. IVc. COPYRIGHT INFO on White House documents Federal government information (including White house press releases, speeches, etc) is not copyrightable. Even when they are incorporated into a copyrighted article, the government's words themselves are not copyrighted, only the editorial content of the article is copyrighted. Anyone is free to post WH press releases, etc. anywhere. If however, you were posting a newspaper's reportage of the WH press release without the newspaper's permission, you could be infringing copyright. V. HOW DO I SEND E-MAIL TO CONGRESS? The House and the Senate are establishing electronic public access links. You can access Congressional information via the protocols listed below. For additional information, please contact the offices of your Representative or Senators. Site Protocol Host/connection House WWW www.house.gov E-mail Congress@hr.House.GOV Senate WWW www.senate.gov Library of Congress WWW www.loc.gov Telnet LOCIS.LOC.GOV VI. OTHER GOVERNMENT SOURCES Begin your search for Government services at the White House web site: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/handbook.html This is a single point of access to many of the available web sites. You might also try these sources: Federal Publications BBS: (202) 512-1387 National Archives: WWW: www.nara.gov gopher: gopher.nara.gov voice: (301) 713-6000 Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX) : WWW: www.fie.com gopher: fedix.fie.com FEDIX Dial-in (modem) : 1-800-783-3349 Smithsonian Institution: WWW: www.si.edu gopher: gopher.smithson.si.edu United States Code : gopher://hamilton1.house.gov:70/1 *****Please note that the government information sources listed in Section VI are not connected in any way to any White House online projects, so if you have any problems with Congressional or other systems, you will need to contact their system administrators for assistance. VII. WHERE CAN I HEAR THE PRESIDENT'S SATURDAY MORNING RADIO ADDRESS? What is the POTUS Saturday Address to the Nation (PSAN)? The President of the United States (POTUS) makes an Address to the Nation every Saturday at 10 AM. This is in continuation of the tradition started by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (with the famous Fireside Chats), and revived by President Ronald Reagan. The POTUS Saturday Address to the Nation is referred to by the acronym "PSAN". President Clinton's Saturday morning Radio Address to the nation can be heard on many local stations throughout the country. The address is carried live by some stations and broadcast on tape-delay by others. Please check with your local stations to determine if and when you can hear the address in your area. You can also write to the White House Office of Media Affairs, Attn: Saturday Radio Address, The White House, Washington, DC 20500 (snail mail only) for a listing of local area broadcasters. VIII. HOW DO I SUBMIT UPDATES FOR THIS FAQ? Please send corrections, deletion and additions to this FAQ to: faq-update@whitehouse.gov IX. HOW DO I GET THE MOST UP-TO-DATE COPY OF THIS FAQ? Send an electronic mail message to faq@whitehouse.gov and the most up-to-date copy of this file will be returned to you. ---------- End of Document