False Unsupported Accusation

False Unsupported Accusation

From official court transcripts:

MR. ZENGER: YOUR HONOR, THERE MIGHT NOT BE A CONTRACT BETWEEN THEM, I ADMIT. BUT ONE THING THAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED, AND WHICH WE ALSO INTEND TO FILE IN OUR RESPONSE TO THE CONTRIBUTORY INFRINGEMENT MATTER, IS WE HAVE E-MAILS GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM THE TANNERS TO THE SAME NEWS GROUPS AT WHICH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE AUSTRALIAN SITE IS POSTING MATERIAL. THERE IS CONTACT. THEY'RE JUST NOT TALKING WITH EACH OTHER. BUT THE AUSTRALIAN WEB SITE OWNER PUTS SOMETHING UP ON THE NEWS GROUP, AND EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT, INCLUDING THE TANNERS. AND THEN THE TANNERS POST SOMETHING UP TO THAT SAME NEWS GROUP THAT RESPONDS TO IT. AND THEY ARE FEEDING OFF OF EACH OTHER.

Five Points of Disagreement:

The Tanners have NEVER posted to any newsgroup.
The ONLY newsgroup posting done by Utah Lighthouse Ministry is below.
Utah Lighthouse Ministry has NO connection with any other postings on USENET.
Utah Lighthouse Ministry has NOT directed others to make any such postings.
The statement by Mr. Zenger is FALSE--no evidence has ever been submitted to the court to support this wild accusation.

From: Utah Lighthouse Ministry <info@utlm.org>
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Yes, we sell a reprint of the Nauvoo Expositor for $2.00+shipping.
Here's the link:

http://www.utlm.org/booklist/titles/ub053_nauvooexpositor.htm

Also, if anyone is interested in our legal battle with the LDS Church,
we've added a news page that will be updated regularly:

http://www.utlm.org/underthecoveroflight.htm

-Mark
Webguy@utlm.org
Utah Lighthouse Ministry
www.utlm.org
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Jack Mormon wrote:
> 
> In article <19991030220049.02777.00000446@ng-fy1.aol.com>,
> jeff922@aol.com.37297 (Jeff Burden) wrote:
> 
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=191281623
> >
> > Description:
> > This is a reproduction of the original 1844 newspaper, "The Nauvoo Expositor."
> 
> Don't the Tanners still offer this in their catalog?  Used to
> be just a few bucks.  And I thought the entire text was available
> on-line from a number of web pages.
> 
> Maybe a used photocopy is worth a buck.
> 
> Jack
> I know Jack about Mormons

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