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Sandwiching.

This is primarily used with FUD#2 (outright fabrication). Your fabrications are sandwiched between two true statements in hopes that their status as a fabrication will be obscured by the particles of truth oozing from the surrounding statements. Thus: ``You don't have to troll the net for freeware solutions, edit reams of config files and be a power user to config WinNT or Win9X'' (http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-scitech/posts/ol/49648.asp). Note the careful disguising of the fabrication (the implication that one must troll the net for freeware solutions) within that statement.




1998-12-02