"whispering campaign" goes positive

[Jonathan Lighter]

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JL

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:56 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
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> > a bit like an old-fashioned whispering
> > campaign where individuals are employed to 'hit' certain websites.
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> Wait, what? "An old-fashionred whispering campaign where individuals …
> 'hit' certain websites'?"
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> How is "old-fashioned whispering" connected to "hitting" Websites?
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