From: ae@izhmark.udmurtia.su (Alexander Ermolaev)
Newsgroups: relcom.netnews
Subject: USA Senate Establishes FTP Server
Date: 7 Feb 1994 10:00:14 GMT
Organization: Communication Company MARK-ITT
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Message-ID: <2j53ff$cf0@hq.izhmark.udmurtia.su>

[ Article crossposted from comp.dcom.telecom ]
[ Author was MVM@cup.portal.com ]
[ Posted on Sun,  6 Feb 94 00:26:19 PST ]

From the Computer Privacy Digest:
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 From: "Prof. L. P. Levine" <levine@blatz.cs.uwm.edu>
 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:28:00 -0600 (CST)
 Subject: US Senate FTP Site On Line
 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The following is taken from the EFFector Online, issue 07.02, Jan.  25,
1993, A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ISSN
1062-9424:

Senate FTP Site Online

A new FTP site has been put on line to hold the publicly available
documents and press releases of our Senators.

Chris Casey <chris_casey@kennedy.senate.gov> of the office of Sen.
Edward Kennedy says "Some progress is being made here on the Hill. The
Senate now has an anonymous ftp server running.  It's sparsly
populated, only Kennedy and Stevens have posted anything so far, but I
imagine the rest will find their way shortly. At least it's a start.
The fact that the Senate has an anonymous ftp server is not a secret,
but I don't think it's widely known either."

You can access the server by FTPing to ftp.senate.gov, logging in as
"anonymous" (without the quotes) and giving your email address as
password.

The site's general information bulletin is as follows:

Welcome to the United States Senate's Anonymous FTP Server
(ftp.senate.gov).  This service is provided by the Office of the U.S.
Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration.

This server contains general information files about the United States
Senate in the directory "general".  Directories are also provided for
specific Senators' offices, in alphabetical order by two-letter state
abbreviations, and for Senate committees and other Senate offices.  If
an office is not included in the directory, this indicates no files
have been posted by that office.

No files can be uploaded to this system.  Please direct questions
about a specific Senate office's use of this service to the Senate
office in question.  General inquiries not involving a specific Senate
office can be directed via Internet e-mail to: ftpadmin@scc.senate.gov

Subdirectories for Senator's offices are structured as follows:

/member/state_abbrev./senator's_name/releases/filename
   or
/member/state_abbrev./senator's_name/general/filename

The "releases" subdirectories contain press releases and related
materials, and "general" subdirectories contain information of
long-term interest such as office contacts.

As of Jan. 24, 1994, the site was not being used very extensively, but
individual Senators' directories contained various informational files,
such as the following:

Ted Stevens (AK):

member/ak/stevens/releases
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1321 Jan 21 16:16 Childhood_Immunizations
 -rw-r--r--   1 1            828 Jan 21 16:16 Inman_Statement
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           3152 Jan 05 11:45 Ketchikan_Subcontractors
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           3488 Jan 21 16:16 Seafood_Inspection
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1910 Jan 21 16:17 new_staff
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1661 Jan 21 16:17 tongass_timber

Edward Kennedy (MA):

member/ma/kennedy/general
 -rw-r--r--   1 1         138842 Jan 13 13:49 S1150_Goals_2000
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1011 Dec 13 15:04 on-line_access
 -rw-r--r--   1 1         133477 Dec 27 10:08 s1040.txt

member/ma/kennedy/releases
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           3591 Jan 14 15:23 Human_Radiation_Experimentation
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1664 Jan 05 11:11 Statement_on_Firearms_Proposal
 -rw-r--r--   1 1          16188 Dec 15 14:19 major_accomplishment_93
 -rw-r--r--   1 1          14523 Jan 13 11:58 national_health_reform_debate
 -rw-r--r--   1 1           1298 Dec 15 14:18 worker_retraining_grant

Please express your interest in this first small step, and encourage
your Senators to utilize this new Congressional Internet resource.
Ask your Representatives to look into the possibility of a similar
system for the House.

[Computer Privacy Digest Moderator's note: Rather than logging in with
the userid 'anonymous', this system (and many systems like it) permits
a login with the userid 'ftp'.  This is a small difference, but it
does not contain the (incorrect) presumption that no one knows who you
are.]


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