Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:28:24 -0700

From: Sylvia Swift madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Re: "Culprit Zero" attribution



On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Mark Mandel wrote:



Lest I compound the confusion of who said what when, here is (edited)

the text in which I found the expression "Culprit Zero". It was not used

by the columnist, Mary Schmich, but by Bob Weide, blah blah blah



but schmich apparently also said it. from the version of the retraction

i got:



I regret my part in circulating this cyber-myth and

wish to thank John LeBlanc for calling the error

to my attention and providing the URL for

the below column

(http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/current/schmich.htm)



jessea greenman





----



TODAY'S COLUMN

blah blah blah



Hoping to find the source of this prank, I traced one e-mail backward

from its last recipient, Hank De Zutter, a professor at Malcolm X College

in Chicago. He received it from a relative in New York, who received it

from a film producer in New York, who received it from a TV producer in

Denver, who received it from his sister, who received it. . . .



I realized the pursuit of culprit zero would be endless. I gave up.





sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]socrates.berkeley.edu