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  • And Porter writes, “Supervising dozens or even hundreds of disparate units and under chainletter pressure to add more, management begins to make mistakes” of this “management by the numbers” school.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Earlier this year a spammy chainletter proclaiming that Facebook was deleting inactive accounts (it isn't) it's true that storage is getting cheaper, but it's not free, and also, nowadays, people send video and larger files.

    TechCrunch 2009

  • So maybe the earlier CHRISTMA EXEC worm was the real pioneer, with its mass mailing payload and its chainletter appeal to the gullibility of the victim.

    SecuriTeam Blogs David Harley 2008

  • .. it seems that even "sophisticates" like us fall for the old chainletter idea from time to time.

    Never do anything before your second cup of coffee Jessica 2006

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