a bit more on the Whitehouse email

[Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432 () mcimail com>]

Just reported today (6/2) on page F3 of {The Washington Post}:

"Move over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Bill Clinton has a second
address: president () whitehouse gov".

Several paragraphs later, it reports:

"People who send complaints or praise by E-Mail won't reach the
president directly or jump the queue in getting attention.  The
messages will be read by the White House correspondence staff, with
the same priority as paper letters.

A sampling will be show to the president and Vice President Al Gore,
who made White House E-Mail a personal priority.  (His address:
vice.president () whitehouse gov)."

"The White House already had addresses with three commercial E-Mail
services.  Through them, it was receiving as many as 5,000 messages a
week."  The article later points out that the messages were sent using
sneakernet, i.e. copied to diskette and carried by mail or courier.

In the article, it kept printing the E-Mail addresses such that the
line breaks kept making the system divide the messages as
"president () whi-tehouse gov" or also, in the second place, the address
"vice.president () white-house gov".  So I decided to see if it really
was on line, or if the Post had made a mistake; I telnetted to
rs.internic.net and did a lookup:

Whois: whois whitehouse.gov 

Executive Office of the President USA (WHITEHOUSE-HST)  198.137.240.100 
 WHITEHOUSE.GOV  Whitehouse Public Access (WHITEHOUSE-DOM) 


Whois: whitehouse-dom 

Whitehouse Public Access (WHITEHOUSE-DOM)
   Executive Office of the President USA
   Office of Administration
   Room NEOB 4208
   725 17th Street NW
   Washington, D.C. 20503
   Domain Name: WHITEHOUSE.GOV
   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: 
      Fox, Jack S.  (JSF) fox_j () EOP GOV
      (202) 395-7323
   Record last updated on 26-May-93. 
   Domain servers in listed order: 
   WHITEHOUSE.GOV    198.137.240.100
   NS.UU.NET    137.39.1.3 

whois:

The article mentions that selected items will be shown to the
President and the Vice President directly.  So here's your chance to
send positive comments directly as E-Mail, or, if desired, to vent
your spleen without delay!

Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS () MCIMAIL COM