E-Mail Network Progress, Requests, Resources

                justice@dimenet.tnet.con

To:  Justice For All's E-Mail Network Subscribers 
From:  Fred Fay, Temporary Moderator
Subject:  Progress Report, Requests, Resources
Date:  February 9, 1995

PROGRESS:

Justice For All was formed on January 6th to defend and advance 
disability rights and programs in the 104th Congress.  Our first 
E-mail test message went out a month ago, January 9th.  Since 
then we have grown from 20 to over 100 subscriber/advocates.
We have sent out over 20 "mass E-mailings", ranging from action 
alerts to Congressional staffing updates.  Counting alerts, 
subscriptions and housekeeping messages we've E-mailed over 
1600 messages.  We thank each of you for joining in our efforts 
to mobilize our constituencies to protect and advance our civil 
rights and programs.

REQUESTS:

1.  For our action alerts to be useful they must be timely.  
Messages that die in cyberspace, neither read nor shared, are 
useless.  Please check your E-mail daily.  And please share the 
alerts with your constituency!
  
2.  For more effective grassroots advocacy we need volunteer
subscriber/advocates who will take responsibility for uploading 
the alerts on:

 -- the disability Bulletin Board Systems in their state
 -- internet listserves, Usenet groups, E-pubs
 -- Information utilities like Prodigy, America on Line, 
    Compuserve, Delphi and Genie

If you are willing to check your mail daily and then forward 
the E-mail alerts to the appropriate areas on any of the above, 
please let me know!  We also need a person in each state who 
will E-mail and/or FAX the alerts directly to advocates in each 
state.

RESOURCES:      

For more information on a range of advocacy topics, login to
DIMENET:

 -- To get a listing of some of the disability BBS's in your 
state download the file "blackbag.txt" from DIMENET File Area 
(#17) for Documents, or send an E-mail message to 
list@blackbag.com and you will get a copy in reply.  
(Is there a better list?)

 -- To get the Telephone and Fax Numbers for the 104th Congress 
download the file "congfaxn.txt" from the File Area for Documents.

 -- To get the E-Mail addresses for the 104th Congressional 
Members who have them download the file "congemal.txt" from the 
File Area for Documents.

 -- To get all of our Justice For All Alerts to date, or to 
discuss the issues, select Newsgroup "dnet.justice".  This is 
the place for alerts AND discussion!  The Justice For All list 
is for alerts, NOT discussion.

To access DIMENET you can call one of the following numbers.
To get assistance on using DIMENET or to get a free users Manual 
call the Help lines listed below.  To login to DIMENET call the 
Data lines, below:

Independence Associates Inc., in Taunton Massachusetts    
508-880-5325 for Help voice/TTD
tsbbs02 [dimenet]  - Data Phone: 508-880-5412

Access CIL in Dayton, Ohio
513-439-0071 for Help voice/TTD
tsbbs03 [acils  ]  - Data: 513-439-0557

Ability Resources in Tulsa, Oklahoma
918-592-1235 for Help voice/TTD
tsbbs05 [ability]  - Data: 918-582-3622

Only for people in Arizona
tsbbs01 [telesys]  - Data Phone: 602-649-9099


Thanks for your past leadership and your participation 

in this initial E-mail network!  Please send E-mail to                  

        justice@dimenet.tnet.com 

to change your E-mail adress.  And feel free to call me 

with questions, complaints or suggestions at 508-371-0992.


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|| "rick" = Frederick Allan Fay, Ph.D., Justice For All -- E-mail
||          Network Moderator, 2054 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742      
||          508-371-0992 (Voice, Call ahead for Fax or Modem)
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