April 1995

From our readers:

To: mdtech1@aol.com
Thank you! I just read the Dec. issue of Tapping Technology and want to commend all involved with this publication. It becomes more professional every time I see it and I believe it should be a source of pride for all involved in the creation of this rag. Jimi, I especially enjoyed reading your pieces.
Bud Rizer
Director, CATC
Mississippi State University

TT:
Thank you, Doctor Rizer! Coming from you, we consider that high praise indeed. Your accolades were passed on to Jimi Kinstle (his head wouldn't fit through the door for three days). Hope you're well and enjoying the Mississippi winter.

Dear Editor:
In my mailbox this week I received two periodicals. "Deaf and Hard of Hearing Entrepreneurs Council" Winter- Volume 6 Number 4, published by the DHHEC "Tapping Technology" December 1994, published my Maryland's Technology Assistance Program. The DHHEC publication gives an insight to modern communication when one looks at the adds on pages six and seven. TT numbers, FAX numbers, RELAY numbers, WATTS lines, voice telephone numbers, are all used. And my good friend Louis Schwarz heads the list by also including his Internet e-mail address (hopefully more of the advertisers will add e-mail addresses in the next issue). TAPPING Technology contained an article entitled "Congressional E-mail?" on page fifteen by David Poehlman. He gives some e- mail addresses: Clinton, Gore, Letterman, Limbaugh, BussinessWeek, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine in hope more people will express themselves. He asks "please senators and congress people, please state legislators, provide us with e-mail access directly to you." And that's the point, is it not ? We have an Internet address for Clinton and for Gore. Where is the e-mail address for Senator Sarbanes and for Senator Milkulski ? Where are the e-mail addresses for Maryland's Representatives in the House in particular Steny Hoyer, our ADA hero? Where are the e-mail addresses for the General Assembly of Maryland in Annapolis ? What is President Miller's e-mail address; and what is Speaker Taylor's e-mail address ? What are the e-mail addresses for the Senate Committees, the House Committees ? What are the relevant e-mail addresses for the Department of Legislative Services and the Department of Fiscal Services ? What are the e-mail addresses for individual Senators and Delegates ? And how about the executive branch of government. Will the new Governor have an e-mail address, will the new Lt. Gov. have an e-mail address ? Does Attorney General Curren have an e-mail address ? Does Comptroller Goldstein have an e-mail address ? When the General Assembly elects the State Treasurer, will the Treasurer have an e-mail address ? Hit harder to home. When will all the staff members of the Technology Assistance Program (MD TAP) in the Governor's Office for Individuals with Disabilities have e-mail addresses ? When will the MD TAP publications be available on "Sailor"? When will the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS/MSDE) have e-mail addresses and its information and calendar be on "Sailor" ? When will the Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA/DHMH) have e-mail addresses be on "Sailor" ? When will Maryland's two Centers for Independent Living (CILs) have e-mail addresses and maintain independent living information and an IL calendar on "Sailor" ? When will the Mental Hygiene Administration (MHA/DHMH) have e- mail addresses and be on "Sailor" ? Is the Maryland Library for the Blind and Disabled on the Internet ? 1995 IS HERE ! Let us all get to work on communications ! Communications of this kind is very important to people with disabilities.

Thomas John Martin
Chairman
Maryland Advisory Council for Individuals with Disabilities

TT:
Mr. Martin,
Some of the folks you asked about are "studying" the economics of e-mail and the Internet while others still don't see it on the horizon. As for us at MD TAP, we're working on the issue of making sure all our publications are available on SAILOR - we agree they should be there. All of our staff now have e-mail addresses and we hope to have lots of practice using them.

MD TAP Staff e-mail addresses

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