[Ads-l] "swatting"

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, well. Thanks for the retro-antedate. (Hmm, does that make you a
pre-dator?)

Mark

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Nancy Friedman <nancyf at wordworking.com>
wrote:

> "Swatting" has been in circulation since at least 2007. I wrote about it =
> in April 2013, when the comedian Russell Brand was targeted:
>
> http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2013/04/word-of-the-week-swatting.html
>
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