The persistence of chain letters fascinates me. We all get them, I guess, and I’m sure quite a few of us never pass them on, despite their promises of bad luck if you break the chain or impossibly good luck if you don’t. Nevertheless enough people do pass them on to keep them alive. I’ve blogged twice about the “Chinese Proverb” chain letter that has been circulating most recently as a powerpoint file:
- Incredible Luck Guaranteed To Millions For Almost No Effort! a posting which derided the contents of the chain letter which made little sense.
- Who is Anthony De Croud? a posting which investigates the appearance of Anthony De Croud (who is mentioned in the “Chinese Proverb” chain letter and points to De Croud references going back to 2000.
I also blogged about Pearlas Sandborn:
- Who is Pearlas Sandborn, For That Matter? which points to mentions of Pearlas in a quite different chain letter, which promises that Bill Gates will pay you for simply forwarding the chain letter in order to help him test Microsoft email software. You might conclude that this email will die now that Bill has retired, but I suspect it will live on.
Take a look at the traffic graphs for those blog postings.
[SinglePic not found]"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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