PRODUCT OF:  THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE GOPHER SERVICE

             CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE                9-MAR-1995
                GOPHER/FTP/MAILSERV

                 SEN/ACCESS/OVERVIEW.TXT

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Access from the Internet to the California State Senate includes:

       Electronic Mail,
       Document Archives, and
       Mailing-list services.


Those are accessible using "servers" which include the following:

       Electronic Mail (to contact senators, committees and staff),
       Mailserv        (to access mail-lists and archives),
       Senate-News     (to access bill-info., office-mail-lists and archives),
       Gopher          (to access bill-info. and archives),
       WWW             (to access bill-info. and archives),
       Mosaic, Netscape, LYNX, etc. (same as WWW)
       FTP             (to access archives)
       Finger          (to access e-mail addresses)
       Finger ZIP      (to identify Senator(s) that serve a ZIP code area)
       Finger by mail  (same as Finger for e-mail users)

Generally, those servers may be accessed as follows:

       Electronic Mail:    To: <addressee>@sen.ca.gov

       Mailserv:           To:  [email protected]

       Senate-News:        To:  [email protected]

       Gopher:             gopher gopher.sen.ca.gov

       WWW:                lynx http://www.sen.ca.gov

       FTP:                ftp ftp.sen.ca.gov
                           login, enter: user anonymous
                           password, enter your internet mail address

       Finger:             finger <name>@sen.ca.gov
                           finger [email protected]
                           Finger <zipcode>@sen.ca.gov

The ftp directory [ACCESS] contains documents describing how to use the
various services:

The following documents are available:

BILLINFO.TXT    -- Locating the text of bills, information about bills,
                       and legislative schedules

BROCHURE.TXT    -- Text from the 3-color brochure on accessing legislative
                  information from the Internet.

COMMITEE.TXT    -- Locating information about Senate Committees.

MAILLIST.TXT    -- Locating information about mailing lists to automatic-
                       ally receive certain types of information.

OVERVIEW.TXT    -- This document.

RESEARCH.TXT    -- Locating information about Senate Office of Research
                       reports

SENATORS.TXT    -- Locating information about Senators

TV.TXT          -- Locating information about Cable TV programming and
                       tape archives

WDMACRO2.TXT    -- Microsoft Word-2 Macro for converting bill-text docu-
                  ments into formatted word processor documents.

WDMACRO6.TXT    -- Microsoft Word-6 Macro for converting bill-text docu-
                  ments into formatted word processor documents.

WPMACRO.TXT     -- Word Perfect Macro for converting bill-text docu-
                  ments into formatted word processor documents.

WPMACRO6.TXT    -- Word Perfect Macro for converting bill-text docu-
                  ments into formatted word processor documents.

WHITEPAGES.TXT  -- Describes Finger and Finger by Mail options

ZIPCODE.TXT     -- Locating information about Senators who represent
                       specific ZIP code areas.



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You may review, or obtain copies of these documents as follows:

Using WWW:  Specify URL:  http:://www.sen.ca.gov/

Using GOPHER*:            GOPHER GOPHER.SEN.CA.GOV
               Select:   Access Options for the
                            California State Legislature/

           * if you are unable to direct your gopher as indicated,
             you should be able to find a reference to Gopher Jewels --
             follow the Government/State Government menu options to
             The California Legislature Gopher


Using FTP:               FTP FTP.SEN.CA.GOV
         Login -- Type: USER ANONYMOUS
      Password -- Type  your Internet mail address
                        CD ACCESS
                        DIR
                        GET filename
       Example:
                       FTP FTP.SEN.CA.GOV
                       user anonymous
                       [email protected]
                       cd access
                       dir
                       get tv.txt

USING MAIL:    Mail To: [email protected]
              Subject: doesn't matter
             Text:     DIR [ACCESS]
                       GET [ACCESS]<filename>

       Example:
                   To: [email protected]
                 Subj: gimme some info
                 Text:
                       dir [access]
                       get [access]tv.txt

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       Subject:  Doesn't matter
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