Isn't this terrific? It looks like Clinton is proposing that we should all
get Postal Service sponsored spam. As if we didn't already get enough
regular Postal Service junk mail -:( Please read and send your comments to
the Commerce Dept:
Suz
From... http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=23520
CLINTON BACKS UNIVERSAL E-MAIL PLAN
August 7, 1998
Web posted at: 10:50 AM EDT
by Tom Diederich
(IDG) -- The Clinton administration wants all
Americans to have an e-mail address to go
along with their street address and is
asking the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the
project's backbone.
The idea is to connect physical and electronic
addresses using the
nation's Internet "country code" -- the top-level
".us" domain. Then a
company or government agency, for example, could
send bills or
bulletins to your electronic mailbox as well as
your home.
The administration said the move would
"accelerate and universalize the growth of
electronic commerce," according to the
Postal Service.
Every country has a top-level domain. In
many countries, such as Japan, companies
and other organizations incorporate their
nation's top-level domain into their Web site
addresses.
In the U.S., however, the .us domain is mainly used
by educational
institutions. "There is a very large domain area
that isn't being utilized,
and the Postal Service is proposing, at the request
of the administration,
to create the infrastructure that would allow this
area to be used," said
Postal Service spokeswoman Sue Brennan. After that
is in place, the
Postal Service would be in charge of address
management, she added.
The administration is looking ahead to
the day when most Americans have
access to the Internet or at least e-mail
from their homes. "Everybody would have
an e-mail address, and for those who
cannot access it right now, it would be
downloaded and sent to them through
the mail" so that they could use it at a
library or other facility with Internet
access, Brennan said.
The Postal Service sent a proposal to
launch the .us domain initiative to the
Commerce Department on June 1. The
department on Monday said it would accept comments
from the public,
based on 11 questions, until September 3.
Read the proposal sent to the Commerce Department
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc/dotusrfc.htm
Responses will be posted on the National
Telecommunications and
Information Administration's
(http://www.ntia.doc.gov) Web site.
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