From: Jim Warren Subject: GOV-ACCESS #7: Texas Legis online + Someone wants their say (YES!!) Jan.31, 1994 A PUSH TO GET THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ACCESSABLE VIA THE NET In a message From DSS9973@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU Thu Jan 27 12:11:19 1994, Shawn Stevens -- a staffer with Texas State Rep. Glen Maxey in the TX Legislature said: Feel free to distribute my address to anyone you think would be of help in the effort to bring the TX Legislature online. ... === He's at Box 2910, Capitol Stn., Austin TX 78768; 512-463-0552; fax/480-0365 CALIF LEGISLATIVE STAFF: SPEAK UP! I just heard that one or maybe several people among the California legislative staff, managers or administrators wants to make a public statement -- either critical of me and/or rebutting any/some of my past public comments. Hey! -- sounds good to me! :-) If I can't take the heat, I shouldn't generate the flames. ;-) Unfettered, candid discussion is a potent part of the power and benefit of the net. I value it; I support it. Explicitly: MY STANDING OFFER, REPEATEDLY STATED, STILL STANDS Just to make sure everyone knows it -- the offer I made, repeatedly, to a number of legislative and Legislative Data Center staff in the past, remains open. Permanantly. To wit: Anyone in the Legislature -- legislator, legislative staffer, unelected official, manager, administrator, LDC staffer, ... ANYONE therein -- is still welcome to send ANY statement(s) they wish to me for broadcast to my full distribution list, upon receipt (I'm usually online at least several times, weekly -- 4th Qtr.'93 being an exception due to unrelated offline projects). Caveats/conditions: 1. I will not edit or modify it in any way. I encourage any sender to simultaneously send copies to addressees who are clearly independent of me, when sending a copy to me -- for our mutual protection. 2. Each such message must include a specific request/instruction that I retransmit it to the distribution list. If that preference is unclear, I may not broadcast it. 3. I *may* broadcast such a message without its source-identifier, but only if the source requests such "anonymous" protection. Upon request, I *will* remove the electronic address of the sender, upon request to protect them against unwanted email. 4. If I am suspicious about a request or actual source, or about whether I may be challenged as to the authenticity of the message and source, I may require that a hand-signed copy be faxed or snailmailed to me before I will broadcast it. GOING TO ALL LEGISLATIVE EADDRS I CAN IDENTIFY This message -- aside from going to my full distribution list -- is being copied to every email address I have been able to ping in the Legislature. THIS IS A STANDING OFFER TO YOU ALL. I *want* you to have equal access to this potent communications tool. I *encourage* you to use it. Mo' as it Is. --jim Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/415-851-2814 **To join or drop from the gov-access list, email to jwarren@well.sf.ca.us.** >>Permission herewith granted for unlimited reposting and recirculation.<<