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Africa: Africa Policy Electronic Distribution List
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Africa: Africa Policy Electronic Distribution List
Date Distributed (ymd): 950702
A NOTE TO OUR READERS
June 30, 1995
Most of you receiving this notice have for some time been
receiving occasional documents via email, or on an electronic
bulletin board or conference, from the Washington Office on
Africa (WOA) and the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC),
as well as documents reposted by either WOA or APIC. For a
few this may be the first message you are reading from us.
Just as others who are exploring the potential of electronic
publishing, we are still learning and experimenting with this
new medium. However, with some six months experience so far,
almost 700 addresses directly on the list and an estimated
60,000 to 70,000 recipients through bulletin boards and
rebroadcasting, it seems time to share with you an explanation
of what we are trying to do with this list. We would also
like to solicit your comments and suggestions, and ask your
help in making the list known to others who might be
interested.
Below you will find a summary description of our electronic
distribution list, its purposes and how we see it as
complementing other material available on-line. Your
reactions and your suggestions for improvement will be much
appreciated.
Note: If you did not yourself request to be on our
distribution list, you were suggested by someone else as
likely to be interested, or you are receiving this on another
list or bulletin board or as forwarded by someone else. If you
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rather than through a bulletin board, or to suggest another
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request to woa@igc.org or apic@igc.org. Please be
patient :-).
Africa Policy Electronic Distribution List
File last updated 6/30/95
*Summary Description*: The Africa Policy Electronic
Distribution List is a free electronic distribution list of
policy-relevant documents concerning U.S./African relations
and related issues. Documents distributed include
publications produced by the Washington Office on Africa
(WOA) and WOA's educational affiliate, the Africa Policy
Information Center (APIC), as well as documents selected for
reposting by either WOA or APIC.
APIC and WOA are each responsible for the content of their
own publications. Selection of a document for reposting
implies that it is considered a useful resource for wider
public debate, but not necessarily that either APIC or WOA
endorses all the views expressed in reposted material.
The list is designed to supplement, rather than to
substitute for, other electronic sources of news, more
detailed and frequent material on one particular country or
issue focus, or interactive discussion and debate. It will
occasionally post pointers to other such resources. And it
will also occasionally include notices of availability of
relevant printed resources for sale by APIC, WOA or other
organizations.
*Purposes and Audience*: We want to reach the largest number
of individuals and multi-user sites with a concern for
Africa policy issues and U.S./African relations. While the
primary focus is on material useful to broader
constituencies in the U.S., we hope that it may also be of
interest to people and sites in other countries. We are
aiming to have material which is generally understandable to
readers with limited background knowledge but still useful
as updates to those with more extensive background.
Our objective is to help build a critical mass of
information serving constituencies which can press U.S.
policy in directions more sensitive to African grassroots
interests in peace, sustainable development, democratization
and human rights.
We have chosen a simple text email format as our primary
vehicle for the present in order to reach the largest number
of people at the lowest cost to us and to the recipients.
If you know of individuals or multi-user sites that would
find the material helpful, please provide us with the
addresses or pass this notice on to them. We would like to
have it reach sites in Africa as well, particularly in order
to gain feedback that might in turn help educate U.S.
constituencies. But we are aware that many sites as yet have
limited bandwidth or high costs for receiving messages.
Although the list is not a discussion list, comments and
suggestions on the content of our postings and our strategy
for electronic distribution are welcomed, and will be taken
into consideration. Reposting and reproduction in other
forms, with acknowledgement, is welcomed. Notification of
reposting is not required but would be much appreciated
since it can provide us with a gauge of the extent to which
our material is being found useful.
*Frequency*: Irregular, ranging from two to three items a
month to two to three items a week. Our goal is to pace the
distribution so as to include enough material on a range of
topics to be useful to the largest number of recipients
while not including so much detailed or highly specialized
material that recipients' mailboxes are overloaded. Some
items, with greater detail concerning U.S. legislative
process, are sent only to addresses with U.S.-based host
computers.
*Semi-technical details*: The list of addresses is
maintained off-line in a Pegasus Mail distribution list.
Items to be distributed are sent by email to all addresses
on the list, which include both individual addresses and
sites such as the Peacenet conference africa.news, the
listservs Africa-L and Africa-N, the Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.africa, and the Ecunet meeting Africa Advocacy.
Individuals wanting to join the list, or to have their names
dropped, should send a message to woa@igc.org or to
apic@igc.org. Sysops of multi-user sites should inform
us of the correct name/address of the conference or list
name to which they prefer our postings to be sent.
Note that it is not practical for us to filter the list by
topic for particular recipients. Those wanting to access
only selected postings should ask the sysop of their host
system whether it is possible to arrange a conference
address to receive the list instead of its being sent to
their individual address.
Although back items are not currently available
electronically in an archive from APIC or WOA, they can be
accessed on the APC networks in the africa.news conference.
Future plans call for making documents distributed through
the list also available through gopher and web access. Most
are currently available through the University of
Pennsylvania African Studies Web site at:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
under the Urgent Actions or What's New links.
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The Washington Office on Africa (WOA) is a not-for-profit
church, trade union and civil rights group supported
organization that works with Congress on Africa-related
legislation. For more information on WOA, send any email
message to woa-info@igc.org.
WOA's educational affiliate is the Africa Policy Information
Center (APIC). APIC's primary objective is to widen the
policy debate in the United States around African issues and
the U.S. role in Africa, by concentrating on providing
accessible policy-relevant information and analysis usable
by a wide range of groups and individuals.
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