Gore's appearance on CompuServe

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

>Posted-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:22:02 -0500
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 13:01:46 -0500 (EST)
>From: vic sussman <vic@access.digex.net>
>Subject: Gore's appearance on CompuServe
>To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
>Cc: verbwork@acess.digex.net
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>David--you may wish to post the following on interesting people or
>elsewhere. Feel free to edit as you see fit:
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>Vice-President Al Gore will be appearing live today, January 13, in a
>CompuServe conference presented by U.S. News & World Report. This is the
>first time a Vice-President (or President, for that matter) has ever met
>the general public via computer conferencing. Gore will answer questions
>posted by CIS members. These questions will be live and spontaneous,
>without the seven second tape delay commonly used in talk radio.
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>The conference will be held in CompuServe's Convention Center, which holds
>300 people. The historic nature of this meeting, however, has prompted CIS
>to expand the bandwidth. An additional 600 spaces have been made
>available, which may--if all 900 slots are filled--make this the most
>heavily attended live computer-mediated conference ever held.
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>The conference will also be carried live on television by C-SPAN. Full
>transcripts of the conference will be posted on the Internet by the White
>House. U.S. News & World Report will also post the transcript in its forum
>library on CompuServe (GO UNW-81)
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>The conference begins at 5 p.m. eastern standard time, concluding at
>approximately 5:45 p.m.
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>Vic Sussman
>Senior Editor (covering cyberspace issues)
>U.S. News & World Report.
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