Note: my last name has been replaced with *, and Ang's last name has been replaced by B., per her wishes.

Date:          Thu, 25 Jan 01 16:50PM EST
From:         "AngelaBar" <anjuliz@pronetisp.net>
To:             "Patrick *" <iampunha@netscape.net>
Subject:     Re: [Re: Diva on a Rant]
 

Sure, I don't mind Patrick. If you could leave my last name out..putting Angela B. I'd appreciate it..
  you never know with these message boards who has  a vendetta.
  Ang
 

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: Patrick *
        To: AngelaBar
        Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:45 PM
        Subject: Re: [Re: Diva on a Rant]

Ms. B.:

        Would you object to me posting your email (as in, the email you wrote) on the
        message board I talked about earlier?

        I have the full text here in case you wanted to make sure it's all okay to
        print.

        Thanks again.

        Patrick *

"AngelaBar" <anjuliz@pronetisp.net> wrote:

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        > Attachment:
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        Dear Patrick,
        This chat was co-written by myself and author Larry Graves the two weeks prior
        to that date, perhaps even a month before. We are
        both members of a club called The Net Wits. We did this chat as a promotional
        service to increase hits to both our sites and the Net
        Wits.

        Subsequently, I learned a few months later that this chat was plagiarized on a
        well-known message board, which name eludes me at the
        moment. I found out by a woman who wrote me to tell me that she had a feeling
        the author was plagiarizing, did a search, and found
        out that Larry and I were the real authors. This person was apparently getting
        kudos and what not for supposedly writing this story.

        I then found out that the person who plagarized the story was tragically
        killed in an auto accident. I did speak with the owners of
        the message board/site and they apologized profusely for the plagiarism.

        I would imagine if you are writing me than the story has been plagarized
        again, or you are referring to the same incident I am?

        Either way, when I heard the poor guy died I certainly wasn't going to post to
        that board "HEY..I"m the writer, not him". That would
        have seemed just a tad too callous.

        Anyway, I hope this sheds some light on the matter for your or for your
        friend.
        Angela B.

          ----- Original Message -----
          From: Patrick *
          To: angela@humorcolumns.com
          Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:33 PM
          Subject: Diva on a Rant
 

          Ms. B.:

          In a discussion with a friend of mine beginning yesterday, the topic of
        "Diva
          on a Rant" came up.  More specifically, the site
          http://www.humorcolumns.com/cyberchat.html.  My friend is wondering if the
          chat session took place on February 15, 1999, or if the date was changed
        for
          some reason.  Specifically, she wants me to prove that it wsan't changed
        from
          a later date.

          Any help you can give me in this is greatly appreciated.

          Patrick *