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To: jjs_ynot who wrote (4970)	12/26/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: tom pope	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 43080

To All Having given the matter a little time to think it over, I have decided that I cannot allow Jenna's recent attack on me on this thread to go unanswered. Silence may give the impression that I accept the truth of her position. Jenna informed me via private mail dated December 24 that I was named and involved in “ a legal libel suit”, apparently because I had sent a “doctored e-mail to Scott”. I replied that I had not. Jenna replied that there “no way he could have gotten it if you had not sent it to him.” In another private mail a few minutes earlier, Jenna said that I was “inciting Scott for my own amusement”. The fact is that I sent no e-mail, doctored or not, to Scott. I did not copy to Scott ANY of the several e-mails referring to Scott that Jenna sent me from December 3. And the irony is that I deliberately did not copy these messages because I did not want to exacerbate an unfortunate personal situation. They are not pleasant. It is unlikely I would lie about this. Since Jenna has launched a suit against me, the lie would emerge in discovery. The only e-mail from Jenna to me that I copied to Scott was the one dated December 24 referred to above, when I basically asked Scott what on earth was going on. Given the initiation of Jenna's “libel suit”, I thought it would be prudent to ask my attorney to set me up with an attorney who is versed in the law of libel and defamation. At that time I will ask him whether Jenna's statements about me are actionable. I do not know at this time whether they are. If they might constitute a basis for a cause of action, I have the time and the resources to pursue the matter, not because I wish to abridge Jenna's free speech rights, but because I believe that vilification should not be a part of civilized discourse, on SI or anywhere else. I will also, after obtaining legal advice, publish on the net the correspondence between Jenna and myself. Sorry to have taken up your time with this petty matter. I do feel I have to set the record straight.