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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (53937)	5/1/2003 10:39:44 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

Just for fun, I looked up FUD in an acronym finder. The results are pretty funny, especially the last one which is copied verbatim: Fear, Uncertainy and Doubt Female Urinary Device Fever of Undetermined Origin [edit: Shouldn't it be FUDO?] Field Use Designator File Update Fire Unit Display First Unit Deployed Fouled Up Disinformation (polite form) --Mike Buckley

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (53937)	5/1/2003 11:08:06 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

Tom, Netlingo agrees with you. It says FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Disinformation. netlingo.com This site also agrees with you. msg.net The following source attributes invention of the term to the founder of Amdahl. Maybe we should ask him what it means. :) foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk This one also mentions Amdahl. However, it clearly is in agreement with me by mentioning that it's about "spreading (possibly untrue) information." wikipedia.org Conisdering that the following sites don't mention anything about truthfulness or falsehood, I gather that they also agree with me. searchenginedictionary.com geek.com whatis.techtarget.com csgnetwork.com dictionary.reference.com Feel free to call me a fuddy-duddy. :) --Mike Buckley P. S. If this post doesn't indicate that I have too much time on my hands, nothing does. I know I'm gonna hear from Frank about addressing it to you though I've replied to a post I wrote. (That's because Frank has too much time on his hands also.)

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (53937)	5/2/2003 10:42:27 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Thanks for the clarification Mike. I really like FUDBOF (FUD Based on Falsehood) and will use it generally when I used to use FUD. Reading on to additional posts it seems Eric's use of FUDD (second D for deception) also seems pretty close to what I had in mind. I would also want to mention another type of FUD which is not necessarily used by company personnel themselves but seems to be used by financial community members. When companies appear highly valued in some key financial measures (I won't mention any specific companies here <gg>), financial community members seem to come out with all the negative news that is fit to print, all at once. Even though the same news actually may have dribbled out in bits and pieces over the previous month or two, they can still package it as a full faced FUD attempt to drive down a stock price for financial gain by shorting in advance. This is also seems to be another creative use of FUD with emphasis on deception in terms of emphasis of worst case scenario outcomes only.