During a challenge to Mr. Straus's speakership ahead of the 2011 legislative session, party activists circulated e-mails emphasizing the Christian faith of his opponents.
It was not immediately clear how widespread opposition to the rabbis' e-mail has been within the congregation, but Mr. Ripp said he had been inundated with messages from people upset about the rabbis' statement, and some members had posted comments online and circulated e-mails expressing concern.
A Bob Jones University professor circulated e-mail messages accusing the senator of fathering illegitimate children.
Eliot Weinberger, a poetry translator, sent a widely circulated e-mail message calling on others to protest to Mr. Galassi.
In 2005, the hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb of Third Point Capital wrote a widely circulated e-mail message to Mr. Griffin about Citadel's poaching.
Dr. Chagnon said in a widely circulated e-mail message, "She is inviting me to a feeding frenzy in which I am the bait".
Mr. Chagnon and his allies have mounted a vigorous counterattack since the book's contents were described in a widely circulated e-mail written by anthropologists Leslie Sponsel and Terry Turner.
He confirmed the contents of a widely circulated E-mail message sent by Michael Kinsley, the editor of the on-line magazine Slate.
In 2007, a Yale biology professor teaching at the Beijing campus sent a widely circulated e-mail blaming Chinese faculty and administrators for tolerating widespread plagiarism.
For instance, he said, he did not necessarily ascribe to a widely circulated e-mail message from the Israeli right-wing activist Ruth Matar, which includes the false assertion, "If Obama were elected, he would be the first Arab-American president".
In reaching its conclusion, the climate panel relied only partly on temperature data like that collected by the scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, whose circulated e-mail correspondence set off the current uproar.
