Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505181608.C3665-0100000@gaia.info.usaid.gov> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 16:50:02 -0400 From: Craig Fisher <mailto:craig@INFO.USAID.GOV> Subject: USAID Announces New Internet List To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
USAID=92s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
Announces OFDA-L.
OFDA-L is an email-distribution list for reports produced by USAID's Office=
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U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). These public documents provide=20
information on a select group of major disasters and emergencies occurring=
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outside the United States. The reports provide summary information on the=
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disaster based on reporting from the field and a compilation of sources, an=
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provide a description and financial accounting of how the United States=20
Government is responding to the disaster.
Three different types of reports will be posted:=20
1) SITUATION REPORTS (sitreps) on long-term, complex emergencies (such as=
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Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, etc.). Sitreps are updated regularly, usually=
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every eight to ten weeks.=20
2) INFORMATION BULLETINS on fast-onset, natural disasters are updated bi-
weekly, weekly, or daily.=20
3) FACT SHEETS are shorter documents on disasters and complex emergencies,=
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which eventually may warrant information bulletins or sitreps.=20
OFDA-L is intended solely for the distribution of information pertaining to=
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the activities of USAID=92s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
TO SUBSCRIBE:
Send an email to mailto:LISTPROC@INFO.USAID.GOV
In the body of the email type the following on one line:
subscribe OFDA-L YOUR FULL NAME
You should receive an email confirming your subscription. If you have any=
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problems or questions you can contact mailto:clowe@usaid.gov or craig@info.usaid.g=
ov.
Current copies of these reports can be found on the USAID Gopher=20
(gopher.info.usaid.gov) or on the USAID Home Page, (http://www.info.usaid.g=
ov)
Please feel free to pass on this announcement where appropriate.=20