# The Campaign Information Service

Clinton/Gore Transition Server (Clinton-Info@campaign92.org)
Tue, 8 Jun 1993 10:30-0400

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    Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 10:30-0400

    From: Clinton/Gore Transition Server <Clinton-Info@campaign92.org>

    Subject: The Campaign Information Service

    To: bene@cs.tu-berlin.de

    Message-Id: <19930608143048.4.LISP-MACHINE@LEX-LUTHOR.AI.MIT.EDU>

Explanation: Welcome to the 1992 Presidential Campaign Information Service.

This is the basic computer-generated form. It asks a series of questions
that will connect you to all the services we have to offer. Each question
has an explanation, a list of valid responses, an important symbol, and
an answer space with the default response filled in.

You can edit this form up to a point. YOU MUST LEAVE the identifier for
the form at the top AS WELL AS the identifiers for the queries below.
The form processor needs these identifiers in order to determine what
form you are submitting and what questions you are answering. The
identifiers are the CAPITALIZED words surrounded by colons. For example,
you need to leave the line
;FORM; HELP
in your response to this form. We have used semi-colons here to trick the
computer. You also at least need one more line, such as
;RECEIVE-CAMPAIGN-NEWS; Yes
As long as you leave these markers and the appropriate values immediately
afterthem you should succeed.

Please try to answer each question that you send back. Your answers
can be partial words, as long as they are unambiguous, like y for a
yes/no question. When in doubt provide more constraint.

When you have filled out the form, mail it back to one of the
campaigns:

Bush-Info@Campaign92.Org
Clinton-Info@Campaign92.Org
Hagelin-Info@Campaign92.Org
Perot-Info@Campaign92.Org
Marrou-Info@Campaign92.Org

If you are having trouble, answer yes to the query [;SEND-EXTENDED-HELP; yes],
or just send mail to any of the campaigns with the subject line: PLEASE HELP!
Alternatively, we have an interacive help lesson available for you, if you
will send mail to

Help@Campaign92.Org

If you'd just like to be removed from all of the lists, send mail to any
of the campaigns listed above, with the subject line
Subject: REMOVE ALL

If you'd like to only be removed from one or two lists, get the extended
help (see above), and look for the section on the `remove' command.

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PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE NEXT LINE!
:FORM: HELP

Instructions: Do you wish to receive the form to perform searches
on campaign documents with the Wide Area Information System (WAIS)?
This is the easiest and most effective way to obtain the campaign
documents discussing issues that concern you.
Answer: Yes or No.
:USE-WAIS-TO-FIND-DOCUMENTS: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to the receive-speeches list
of a campaign?
Answer: Yes or No.
:RECEIVE-SPEECHES: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's receive list
for news flashes, schedules, press releases, and similar releases?
Answer: Yes or No.
:RECEIVE-CAMPAIGN-NEWS: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's receive list
for releases on specific policy areas? (no packages of earlier material)
Answer: Select some of: 1 Economic Releases
2 Foreign Releases
3 Social Releases
:RECEIVE-RELEASES:

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a volunteer list?
The place to talk with other volunteers in your state, your region,
and your country at large. You will hear what going on if you sign up.
Answer: State name, or NONe (don't forget about North Dakota).
:VOLUNTEER-IN-STATE: None

Instructions: Do you wish to receive a long help message?
It will tell you more about the Information Service and
explain how to use command lines.
Answer: Yes or No.
:SEND-EXTENDED-HELP: No

Instructions: Do you wish receive a package of
campaign documents for specific issue areas? This will
send you the form to request them.
Answer: Yes or No.
:SEND-CAMPAIGN-PACKAGE: No

Instructions: You can ASK a question of, or MAKE a suggestion to a campaign,
you can RETRIEVE the current questions, and GET the latest suggestions,
or you can VOTE to recommend questions and suggestions that the campaign should
consider this week. The answers ASK-QUESTION, MAKE-SUGGESTION, and VOTE,
get you the appropriate forms for those activities. RETRIEVE-QUESTIONS and
GET-SUGGESTIONS send you the current submissions to this campaign. Informed voting
is much easier after your have retrieved the questions or suggestions to
find out their voting IDs. The more you use this facility the faster the
campaign will reply.

Answer: choose one of Ask-Question, Retrieve-Questions, Vote
Make-Suggestion, Get-Suggestions, or None.
:CAMPAIGN-FEEDBACK: None

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's economic
policy discussion list?
Answer: Yes or No.
:DISCUSS-ECONOMIC-POLICY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's foreign
policy discussion list?
Answer: Yes or No.
:DISCUSS-FOREIGN-POLICY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's social policy
discussion list?
Answer: yes or no.
:DISCUSS-SOCIAL-POLICY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to be added to a campaign's political
philosophy discussion list?
Answer: Yes or No.
:DISCUSS-POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to participate in an opinion survey
regarding the impact of computer networks on the presidential election?
Respondents will receive the results when they become significant.
Answer: Yes or No.
:SEND-USAGE-SURVEY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to participate in an opinion survey
regarding the impact of the media on the presidential election?
Respondents will receive the results when they become significant.
Answer: Yes or No.
:SEND-MEDIA-SURVEY: No

Instructions: Do you wish to participate in an opinion survey
regarding the presidential election? Respondents will receive
the results when they become significant.
Answer: Yes or No.
:SEND-VOTING-SURVEY: No

Instructions: If you wish to report a bug, flag unclear documentation,
suggest a feature, or comment on the usefulness of this system, we
will be very grateful.
Answer: Explain the bug you encountered, ending your report with two
blank lines. Otherwise, just leave this answer blank.
:REPORT-A-BUG:

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The Presidential Campaign Information Service is a non-partisan
service operated at M.I.T to make campaign information available,
facilitate electronic discussion of the issues, and to study the
use of electronic mail as a component of a presidential campaign.
The service can neither control who reads what you write in public,
nor how they may use your written words. For our part, we store
most messages, and we will make them available after the election
for scientific study. Names and any other identifiers will not be
released; they will be omitted or replaced with random symbols.

Eric Loeb and John Mallery
M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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