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:  mailserv@sen.ca.gov

	Senate-News:        To:  Senate-News@sen.ca.gov

	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 Senator@sen.ca.gov
                            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
			jjones@abc.edu
			cd access
                        dir
			get tv.txt

USING MAIL:    Mail To: MAILSERV@SEN.CA.GOV   
	       Subject: doesn't matter   
	      Text:     DIR [ACCESS]
			GET [ACCESS]<filename> 

	Example:
	 	    To: mailserv@sen.ca.gov
		  Subj: gimme some info
		  Text:
                        dir [access]
		        get [access]tv.txt 

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The directory [ACCESS.UPDATES] contains documents regarding changes
or enhancements to access services.  You may subscribe to a mailing
list to receive copies documents added to [ACCESS.UPDATES] as follows:

	Mail To:  Senate-News@sen.ca.gov
        Subject:  Doesn't matter
        Text:
                  SUBSCRIBE ACCESS UPDATES

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