Fred, that our words are written here is why I say it would make sense to me that it is libel. I remember being surprised when a Bronzer-attorney told me that some cases had been handled as slander - I don't remember if it was because there is question as to whether or not things posted can be equated to things officially published. It made no sense to me at the time, either. I will check with the Bronzer attorney to see if I'm remembering this incorrectly. Whether slander or libel though isn't a big deal. I wouldn't want to see any Buffista bothered about either. Maybe we need to incorporate the phrases "in my opinion", "rumor has it - and I have no idea if this is true" and "allegedly"?

What is Libel?

Don't worry about it, John. Seriously. Consider Microsoft. And all the bbs in all the world, and all the people who hate Microsoft. And yet, have you ever heard of these opinions being silenced by Microsoft's trigger-happy litigation? We don't have nearly enough influence to make this ever, ever an issue.

Brought over from press:

Note -- buffistas.org has a mailing list functionality. I can set up any required ones.

ita, that is so cool (and now that I think of it, I remember you mentioning this before, but maybe it was only to the admins). I can get Yahoo groups, but I'm not crazy about them.

That RULES. ita, can you set up a somervillains@buffistas.org list? Does one have to be a Stompy Foot to add people to it/manage it/etc? What's required to make it all happen?

I'd love to ditch yahoogroups.

I've set up a list. Jen, you're the owner. I haven't poked into the functionality (ezmlm) in depth, but here are the basic commands:

Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the somervillains@buffistas.org mailing list.

I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at somervillains-owner@buffistas.org.

This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses.

Here is a list of the command addresses supported:

Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list:

• <somervillains-info@buffistas.org>
• <somervillains-faq@buffistas.org>

Similar addresses exist for the digest list:

• <somervillains-digest-subscribe@buffistas.org>
• <somervillains-digest-unsubscribe@buffistas.org>

To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail:

• <somervillains-get.123_145@buffistas.org>

To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456, mail:

• <somervillains-index.123_456@buffistas.org>

To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345, send an empty message to:

• <somervillains-thread.12345@buffistas.org>

The messages do not really need to be empty, but I will ignore their content. Only the ADDRESS you send to is important.

You can start a subscription for an alternate address, for example "john@host.domain", just add a hyphen and your address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word:

• <somervillains-subscribe-john=host.domain@buffistas.org>

To stop subscription for this address, mail:

• <somervillains-unsubscribe-john=host.domain@buffistas.org>

You know, I now remember how I knew that we had mailing list capabilities. It's because I use the admins mailing list. Duh!!!

Is it the weekend yet?

Fred, Shawn - I heard back from the bronzer attorney. She did some poking and says that it usually boils down to libel, so I either heard it from someone else originally, or made the whole damned thing up. Sorry for the confusion.

Changing my vote. Buffy 2: Hey, I've Died Twice.

But shouldn't that be for Buffy 3?

Stop being all logical and stuff!

Well, that's originally why I put it as "Hey she's died twice" - but I still think the "I've" is better.