Subject: Senate FTP Site Online ------------------------------- A new FTP site has been put online to hold the publicly available documents and press releases of our Senators. Chris Casey of the office of Sen. Edward Kennedy says "Some progress is being made here on the Hill. The Senate now has an anonymous ftp server running. It's sparsely populated, only Kennedy and Stevens have posted anything so far, but I imagine the rest will find their way shortly. At least it's a start. The fact that the Senate has an anonymous ftp server is not a secret, but I don't think it's widely known either." You can access the server by FTPing to ftp.senate.gov, logging in as "anonymous" (without the quotes) and giving your email address as password. The site's general information bulletin is as follows: Welcome to the United States Senate's Anonymous FTP Server (ftp.senate.gov). This service is provided by the Office of the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. This server contains general information files about the United States Senate in the directory "general". Directories are also provided for specific Senators' offices, in alphabetical order by two-letter state abbreviations, and for Senate committees and other Senate offices. If an office is not included in the directory, this indicates no files have been posted by that office. No files can be uploaded to this system. Please direct questions about a specific Senate office's use of this service to the Senate office in question. General inquiries not involving a specific Senate office can be directed via Internet e-mail to: ftpadmin@scc.senate.gov Subdirectories for Senator's offices are structured as follows: /member/state_abbrev./senator's_name/releases/filename or /member/state_abbrev./senator's_name/general/filename The "releases" subdirectories contain press releases and related materials, and "general" subdirectories contain information of long-term interest such as office contacts. As of Jan. 24, 1994, the site was not being used very extensively, but individual Senators' directories contained various informational files, such as the following: Ted Stevens (AK): member/ak/stevens/releases -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1321 Jan 21 16:16 Childhood_Immunizations -rw-r--r-- 1 1 828 Jan 21 16:16 Inman_Statement -rw-r--r-- 1 1 3152 Jan 05 11:45 Ketchikan_Subcontractors -rw-r--r-- 1 1 3488 Jan 21 16:16 Seafood_Inspection -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1910 Jan 21 16:17 new_staff -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1661 Jan 21 16:17 tongass_timber Edward Kennedy (MA): member/ma/kennedy/general -rw-r--r-- 1 1 138842 Jan 13 13:49 S1150_Goals_2000 -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1011 Dec 13 15:04 on-line_access -rw-r--r-- 1 1 133477 Dec 27 10:08 s1040.txt member/ma/kennedy/releases -rw-r--r-- 1 1 3591 Jan 14 15:23 Human_Radiation_Experimentation -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1664 Jan 05 11:11 Statement_on_Firearms_Proposal -rw-r--r-- 1 1 16188 Dec 15 14:19 major_accomplishment_93 -rw-r--r-- 1 1 14523 Jan 13 11:58 national_health_reform_debate -rw-r--r-- 1 1 1298 Dec 15 14:18 worker_retraining_grant Please express your interest in this first small step, and encourage your Senators to utilize this new Congressional Internet resource. Ask your Representatives to look into the possibility of a similar system for the House. UPDATE: The Senate archives now feature material from Ted Stevens (AK), Frank Murkowski (AK), Ed Kennedy (MA), Charles Robb (VA), Patrick Leahy (VT), Sam Nunn (GA), and Jeff Bingaman (NM), as well as the Republican Conference Committee, Rules and Administration Cmte., Environment & Public Works Cmte, Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Cmte., Small Business Cmte., Indian Affairs Cmte., Labor and Human Resources Cmte., and the Office of Management and Budget. This site is now accessible via gopher at gopher.senate.gov. -- Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994