CAMPAIGN '92 CANDIDATE INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE

   Complete sets of position papers, speeches, official state-
ments, fact sheets, etc. for both President Bush and Governor 
Clinton are now available for ftp.

   To access, simply do an anonymous ftp to: nptn.org 
(192.55.234.52).  (Type: ftp nptn.org, login as: anonymous, give 
your e.mail address as your password and you are into the site.) 

   Once you are in, go into the /pub/campaign.92 subdirectory 
(type: cd /pub/campaign.92), type: ls to list the files, and 
download away (type: ascii, then type: get <name of file>).  We 
strongly suggest the first file(s) you download are INDEX.BUSH 
and/or INDEX.CLINTON.  It's about the only way of knowing what's 
where.  When you are finished, type: bye to logoff.

   All files are official campaign documents, provided by the 
National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) in cooperation with 
the Bush/Quayle and Clinton/Gore campaign committees.  At the 
moment we are only able to provide Republican and Democratic 
information.  (We are still waiting for a reply from the 
Libertarians.  tap... tap... tap...)

   Over the coming weeks we will begin the process of uploading 
full-text of the appropriate documents to this newsgroup for those 
who do not have ftp capability.  Both the ftp site and the 
newsgroup files will be updated each day as new material comes in.


   AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR:  This ftp site is brought to 
you by the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) as part of 
its "Campaign '92" program.

   NPTN is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing free, 
public access, computerized communications and information systems 
in cities throughout the U.S. and abroad.  (Think of something 
like National Public Radio or PBS on television, then substitute 
community computers for radio and T.V. stations, and you have the 
gist of what we're trying to do.  To see one of our community 
computers in action, you might want to try, for example, the 
Cleveland Free-Net (telnet: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, freenet-in-b.cwru.edu,
freenet-in-c.cwru.edu--then ask yourself why there isn't something 
like this at YOUR location.)

   For further details we recommend you download the file: 
ABOUT.NPTN.TXT or shift over to our organizational ftp area by 
typing: cd /pub/info.nptn