use of the electronic publication of White House documents. The survey results can guide improvements in this new information resource and provide insights into how electronic access to government might enhance the democratic process. Please return you responses to the survey before midnight EST on January 31, 1994 (05:00 GMT 1994-02-01). Because this survey is adaptive, you will receive some specialized parts of the survey according to your responses. Since these are part of a single survey, your continuing participation will help make the overall results accurate and significant. Your participation is strictly voluntary and you can stop participating at any point or not answer any question, as you like. However, we greatly value your participation in the survey, since only through it can we learn how well electronic access is working. If you are willing to participate, please answer the questions as best you can and return the completed survey to: Surveys@Research.AI.MIT.EDU. 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To: Surveys@Research.AI.MIT.EDU Subject: Send Root Comments: If you have comments on the surveys or specific suggestions on improvements to White House Electronic Publications, please send them to: Commentary@Research.AI.MIT.EDU This survey is part of a research project at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is conducted in association with the M.I.T. Political Science Department. To protect the privacy of individuals and organizations who respond to the survey, all names and identifiers will be removed, before any data is made available for scientific study. Roger Hurwitz and John Mallery Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory -------------------- PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE NEXT LINE! =>FORM=> USAGE 1. How do you currently access White House documents? Answer: Select one or more letters from: A Email directly from Clinton-Info to my email address. B Email from a mailing list to my email address on Internet. C Email from a wide-area non-Internet mailing list. D Indirectly from Clinton-Info through a local distribution point. E From a newsgroup on Usenet/Netnews. F Through email on a commercial computer network, e.g., MCImail. G From a forum on a commercial information service, e.g., CompuServe. H From online archives by FTP, Gopher, WAIS or World-Wide Web. I From a dial-up computer bulletin board. J Email received over a telephone-based network, e.g., Fidonet. K In hardcopy from another person or an organization. L Once did but do not currently receive these documents. M Never accessed or received these documents. =>ONLINE-SOURCE=> 2. When did you begin receiving White House documents? Please indicate by year, then month and day in numbers. For example, if you began on March 12, 1993, put 1993-03-12. If you do not recall the day of the month, omit -dd. Answer: Date (yyyy-mm-dd) =>SINCE-WHEN=> 3. What routine(s) do you follow for handling, saving and deleting the White House documents? Answer: Select one or more letters from: A Delete the documents after reading them. B Delete the documents without reading them. C Scan documents and save some for later reading. D Save the interesting documents. E Save in a private document collection. F Put in a library's electronic document collection. G Put hardcopy in a library's document collection. H Make available for retrieval by others via a computer network. I Other. J Not applicable; I don't receive the documents. =>RETENTION=> 4. Are you acting for or affiliated with one of the following types of institutions when you handle the documents? If more than one affiliation is relevant to your use of the documents, please list the most relevant first. Answer: Select one or more letters from: A College or university. B Computer-based, commercial information-service. C Elementary, middle or high-school. D Federal government. E Independent, i.e., no institutional affiliation. F Issue-oriented advocacy group. G Media sector company. H Other for-profit company. I Political party or civic association. J Professional, business or labor group. K Public sector organization. L State or local government. M Not applicable, I don't receive the documents. =>AFFILIATION=> 5. On a scale of 1 to 5, how satisfied are you with the electronic publication of these documents? Answer: 1 means entirely dissatisfied, 5 means extremely satisfied. =>SATISFACTION=> 6. Do you pay either to get the documents or to use the computer account through which you get the documents? Answer: Yes or No. =>COST=> 7. If you distribute the White House documents or their information, what means do you use? Answer: Select one or more letters from: A Face-to-face discussion with others. B Telephone conversations. C Mention or quote in online discussions, e.g., email, IRC. D Mention or quote in offline writing. E Hardcopy distributed in workplace, school, club or church. F Classroom or lecture hall presentation. G Distribution over a local or wide-area computer network. H Hardcopy mailed through the Postal System. I Items in a printed newspaper. J Items on TV or radio programs. K Not applicable. =>DISTRIBUTION=> 8. Please estimate as best you can the number of people who routinely receive (or access) from you the White House documents or reports on their content. Answer: Select one letter from: A No one. B 1 - 3 people C 4 - 7 people D 8 - 15 people E 16 - 25 people F 26 - 100 people G 101 - 500 people H 501 - 1,000 people I 1,001 - 10,000 people J over 10,000 people =>DISTRIBUTION-AUDIENCE=>