http://fortune.com/2016/11/05/gawker-settlement-email-inventor/ with all due respect, would Katie Hafner be appropriately described as a historian? Jonathan Coopersmith Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.845.7151 979.862.4314 (fax) http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/author/42 : latest post is "Coal Comfort. Is Hillary Clinton being 'Al Gored'?" at *http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153818 <http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153818>* * FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine* (Johns Hopkins University Press) is the co-recipient of the 2016 Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history.