[This is the infonote you get when you subscribe to GovAccess.] From owner-govaccess@well.com Mon May 15 05:11:46 1995 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 02:11:36 -0700 Subject: Welcome to govaccess -- Welcome to the govaccess mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@well.com" with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe govaccess [your email address] Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: [Last updated on: Sun May 14 15:03:20 1995] ====================================================================== Welcome to the GovAccess distribution-list! ====================================================================== GovAccess irregularly distributes ongoing information, action-alerts and often flaming advocacy. It's free - worth at least every penny you pay for it. GovAccess concerns computer-assisted and technology-related: (1) *effective* citizen participation in the process of our own governance, (2) protections and implications regarding constitutional civil liberties, (3) citizen-access to federal, state and/or local government - access to representatives, officials, agencies and computerized government records, (4) government access to and records about citizens - covert and overt, and (5) federal, state and local legislation-in-process, statutes, regulations and court cases and decisions pertaining to these issues. GovAccess postings come from (1) solicited and unsolicited contributors, (2) relevant items spotted in other lists and (3) self-generated items authored by list-owner Jim Warren. Identity of contributors will be protected upon request, within legal limits and at the discretion of the list-owner. Past postings are at ftp.cpsr.org: /cpsr/states/california/govaccess and by WWW at http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/states/california/govaccess . To subscribe to GovAccess, email to Majordomo@well.com ('Subject' ignored) message: subscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddr To UNsubscribe from GovAccess, email to Majordomo@well.com message: unsubscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddr Anyone can retrieve this current GovAccess information message. Send mail to: Majordomo@well.com (the 'Subject' line is ignored) message: info GovAccess Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner and sometimes-immoderate moderator Advocate & columnist, MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/<# upon request> jwarren@well.com (well.com = well.sf.ca.us) [puffery: James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award, Soc. of Professional Journalists - Nor.Calif.(1994); Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award, Playboy Foundation (1994); Pioneer Award, Electronic Frontier Foundation (its first year, 1992); founded Computers, Freedom & Privacy confs, InfoWorld, etc.]