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Still, she says she meant the speadsheet to be a documentary version of “the whisper network,” by which women purportedly sometimes tell new or younger colleagues, with a quick word, which men to avoid.

Donegan says she wanted the list to be private and kept it online only about 12 hours, and circulated it among a small number of women. But very quickly, of course, and this was as predictable as rain, particularly for a web-savvy 20-something, it was everywhere and it, and with it the names of 70 men, was public.

“Eventually,” she wrote, “some media companies conducted investigations into employees who appeared on the spreadsheet; some of those men left their jobs or were fired.”

Now Donegan says this wasn’t her intention, but neither does she appear deeply troubled by it, any more than she was troubled by the fact that the document was, as she put it, “vulnerable to false accusations…”

The disclaimer she attached to it said this: “This document is only a collection of misconduct allegations and rumours. Take everything with a grain of salt. If you see a man you’re friends with, don’t freak out.”

She imposed some rules to distinguish violent accusations from less-grave allegations. For instance, if a man was accused of physical sexual assault by more than one woman, she highlighted his name in red. Fourteen men were thus identified as rapists.

She cuts herself a lot of slack. Well, she says, she was both naïve (in that she didn’t “understand the forces that would make the document go viral”) and cynical (in that she thought women could create something to help one another because “I assumed that people with authority didn’t care about what we had to say there”).