"? But the real question is WHY is that noteworthy? Is it news? Why don't you also write about how my farts smell? Shall I write about how you pick your nose in public and then eat your bubbkas? Shall I write that you never wipe your arse well enough and that there are always urine stains down your pants and you frequently forget to zip your fly as you eat twinkies? Suppose I write in the article about you that many people think you are a pedophile and in fact there are several demented people on the net who have said that you are a pedophile? Is that not actionable? This is all hypothetical Mr. David E. Siegel because in fact I have no evidence at all that you are a pedophile and I am not at all accusing you of being a pedophile right? This is all an academic exercise to get through your obviously thick skull that me calling you a pedophile, I mean simply reporting that other people have written such lies, would be actionable if I really were to do that on the basis of baseless reports by vicious low-life scumbags who were out to do you harm. You writing that I am a ""crank"" etc. is exactly as bad as if I were to falsely accuse you of being a predatory pedophile, which I am not doing of course, simply because I found such trash about you on the Usenet groups. Capsice"