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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (78122)2/27/2003 6:30:49 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>Which is not apropos anything I wrote.<<

Yes, it is. Over on Free Republic, they "freep" liberal causes, attempting to overwhelm the message, and they were freeping the virtual demonstation, and the virtual demonstrators were doing it right back, although they don't call it freeping. Not sure what they call it, but I lurk Democratic Underground and I've seen them talking about it.

So a million messages doesn't mean that a million people were involved.

It's sort of like pump-n-dump with stock. A group of people working together can make themselves appear very much larger using the Internet.
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