Lower your blood pressure immediately! This site "dialectizes" whatever text you cut and paste into it. Using the Elmer Fudd dialect, Peter de Jager's words are transformed thusly:

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-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), January 15, 1999

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now that's what I call a *true* FUD factor....

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 15, 1999.

According to the Computing Dictionary, FUD means "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt." Is that how it is being used lately on the Forum? Sorry for the newbie acronym confusion ;-)

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), January 15, 1999.

FUD

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), January 15, 1999.