RC> Subject: Status of US Scanner News
RC>  
RC>         Mr. Van Horn also states that the writers groups for USSN had
RC> been fired or, alternatively, were on strike.  Again, this is 
RC> entirely
RC> false.  When U.S. Scanner Publications recognized it was unable to 
RC> pay
RC> outstanding obligations to its writers
RC>  
RC>         The defamatory statements have resulted in a significant 
RC> number
RC> of calls to U.S. Scanner Publications as well as an ever growing 
RC> number
RC> of individuals who are calling to indicate that they will not 
RC> subscribe
RC> until there is some assurance that their subscriptions will be 
RC> honored
    As a lawyer specializing in debt collection, I wouldn't even think about 
subscribing to any publication that can't pay its writers.
    The magazine is likely to either go broke or to not be able to print due 
to lack of articles, in either event making the subscribers money a waste.
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