Since January 2008, the journal has been circulating by subscription.

Advance copies of the paper circulated this week by e-mail.

A statement was read tonight on Libyan television and circulated by the official press agency.

But shortly after the article appeared, the campaign circulated it by e-mail to reporters.

During the following school year, the library media center was computerized allowing the staff to circulate books by the use of a computer system.

In the months that followed, rumours circulated of a massacre by the police party.

"We need to move fast because Treasury wants to circulate a draft by next week," he snapped.

The story continues to circulate by electronic mail as a chain letter.

Until recently, military women, largely officers, circulated the telephone number for Wandas by word of mouth.

"It was finished in July, and not circulated by the intelligence community until the end of August," said one senior administration official.