NEWS                                                       November 4, 1996

                   FCC SPEECHES NOW AVAILABLE VIA E-MAIL

 The FCC has announced that members of the public may now receive the texts of
speeches by FCC Commissioners via e-mail. Interested parties have the option of  receiving
all released FCC speeches or only those speeches pertaining to universal service issues. These
electronic mailing lists, or "listservers," are part of the FCC's ongoing effort to make its
information widely available to the public.

 Anyone with e-mail access to the Internet may subscribe and unsubscribe themselves
to these mailing lists. Subscribing to these lists is free. 

 To subscribe, send an e-mail to subscribe@info.fcc.gov. Leave the subject line blank.
In the body of the message, type: 

subscribe speeches <your name> if you wish to receive all released speeches, or
subscribe edtech <your name>  if you wish to receive only universal service speeches.

To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to the same address and in the body of the message type, as
appropriate, either:

unsubscribe speeches <your name> or  unsubscribe edtech <your name>.

The FCC also makes available free e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Digest. To subscribe and
unsubscribe to the Daily Digest, follow the above procedure and type in the message field
either:

subscribe digest <your name>  or unsubscribe digest <your name>

For additional information, contact Rochelle Cohen (rcohen@fcc.gov) at (202) 418-0500. 
For assistance using listserver, contact Dave Kitzmiller (dkitzmil@fcc.gov) at (202) 418-0507.

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