Fwd: Gore's appearance on CompuServe

[David J Farber <farber () radiomail net>]

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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


David--you may wish to post the following on interesting people or
elsewhere. Feel free to edit as you see fit:


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.


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.


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) 


The conference begins at 5 p.m. eastern standard time, concluding at
approximately 5:45 p.m.


Vic Sussman
Senior Editor (covering cyberspace issues)
U.S. News & World Report.






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