Ms. Portman

I have received some very specific complaints regarding the content of your page that may be viewed as defamatory or libelous. In such cases I try very hard to balance the rights of our members to express themselves and levy fair criticism against the rights of people who may be defamed by member generated content. I understand that you have contacted our legal department to express your concern regarding our defense of the page, and I wanted to contact you specifically.

In looking at your page, I am disinclined to instruct you as to what content should be removed or retained in order to have your page(s) remain with Angelfire. Instead, I am inclined to direct you towards our Terms of Service that you can find at http://angelfire.lycos.com/doc/rules.html and to let you know that in these cases I will be much more inclined to defend court documents and other pubic documentation rather than personal commentary that may be viewed as defamatory. In short, since we are providing the technical access to the material, we need to be equally concerned about the content and potential of our own liability.

I will let you make the determination and recommend that you act quickly to remove any potentially defamatory material meeting the description above.

Thank you for your time.

Neil Bibbins
Lycos, Inc.