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To: Condor who wrote (61)	4/27/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (2) of 3795

Condor, I'm not bashing you or anything like that, and I understand that you're entitled to an opinion that may differ from my own. I feel that debating all sides of an issue is healthy for all parties as long as the debate doesn't degenerate into something less than a debate. All that I'm trying to do is clear up any misconceptions regarding the facts of what happened. If you have some misunderstandings or misconceptions, then it's likely that other people share those same misunderstandings. The joke site did not take place on SI. It was on an entirely separate URL. There was a thread on SI dedicated to the joke, but SI had nothing to do with it. Whether or not any of the respondents were SI members, and whether or not those respondents revealed any truly personal information, I don't know. It is my belief that the respondents were NOT from SI (in fact, I don't really know), as the SI thread pretty much made it clear to anyone with reasonable intelligence that the site was an April Fool's joke and a parody. Hope this helps somewhat. KJC

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