U.S. Department of State
96/10/17 Press Statement: Listservs Now Available on Department of State 
Foreign Affairs Network 
Office of the Spokesman


Press Statement
October 17, 1996
Listservs Now Available on Department of State Foreign Affairs Network


The Department of State Foreign Affairs Network's (DOSFAN) web site at 
http://www.state.gov features current news and information, and the 
gopher site archives online material available since 1993. DOSFAN has 
just added a way in which you can automatically have information sent to 
you via Internet email (listservs).

By subscribing to DOSFAN's new listservs, you can automatically receive 
via email full texts of the press briefing as well as publications that 
provide key official information on U.S. foreign policy. You also can 
receive notifications of Foreign Travel Per Diem updates. The five 
listservs are:

Secretary of State, Speeches/Testimonies -- DOSSEC
Briefings, Daily Press -- DOSBRIEF
Dispatch Magazine -- DOSDISP
Background Notes -- DOSBACK
Foreign Travel Per Diem -- DOSPDIEM

DOSBRIEF list. The State Department regularly conducts press briefings, 
usually Monday through Friday. The Office of the Press Spokesman, Bureau 
of Public Affairs, releases the texts of press briefings the same day 
unless otherwise indicated in DOSFAN's daily press briefing calendar (at 
http://www.state.gov/www/briefings/index.html); full texts of these 
briefings are distributed via DOSBRIEF. You can expect the DOSBRIEF list 
to generate about 4-5 email messages per week.

DOSSEC list. The Secretary of State regularly addresses various groups 
and testifies before Congress. Full texts of Secretarial addresses and 
remarks are disseminated by the Office of Public Communication, Bureau 
of Public Affairs, for posting to the DOSSEC list as soon as they are 
released. You can expect the DOSSEC list to generate about 3-4 email 
messages per month.

DOSDISP list. The United States Department of State Dispatch is the 
weekly magazine of official U.S. policy and is prepared by the Office of 
Public Communication. It includes key speeches by the President and 
Secretary of State and other senior officials as well as regular 
listings of U.S. treaty actions. You can expect the DOSDISP list to 
generate about 4-5 messages per month. Via DOSDISP you will receive the 
full-text version of the most recent issue of Dispatch magazine.

DOSBACK list. Background Notes are updated periodically and include 
information on U.S. bilateral relations with foreign countries and on 
their governments, political conditions, and foreign relations. You can 
expect the DOSBACK list to generate about 3-4 email messages per month. 
Via DOSBACK you will receive the full-text version of newly released 
Background Notes.

DOSPDIEM list. This list provides notification of updates to the Maximum 
Travel Per Diem Allowance for Foreign Areas, Section 925, a supplement 
to the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas). 
Foreign Travel Per Diem Rates are released monthly by the State 
Department's Office of Allowances. Via DOSPDIEM you will receive monthly 
notification of the availability of Travel Per Diem Rate updates at the 
DOSFAN site.

To subscribe to any of the listservs for the above information, send an 
email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and type in the message body 
"SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME YOURNAME". (Omit the quotation marks, and be sure to 
replace the YOURNAME portion above with your own name -- or, if 
preferred, ANONYMOUS -- and the LISTNAME with the name of the list above 
that you wish to subscribe to.)