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Internet mailing lists and corresponding netnews newsgroups, and (2) by providing an instantly 

 available electronic library of financial information on gopher, ftp and World Wide Web Internet 

 servers to empower government financial operations staff and taxpayers to make more 

 effective decisions. FmanceNet is also the worldwide electronic "clearing house" for 

 information on the sale of all manner of public assets from real property and loans to planes, 

 boats, cars, jewelry, and just about anything that any government, Federal, state, local or 

 International, will be offering for sale to the general public electromcally-truly a "one-stop- 

 shop" for such information FinanceNet has become the largest government administrative 

 Internet network on all service platforms in the world FinanceNet posts an average of 75 new 

 financial management documents every month, processes over 300 e-mail messages daily 

 and is visited at the rate of nearly 9 million "hits" per year 



