CHAIN_LETTERS
A Small Collection of Chain Letters
CHAIN_LETTERS
is a dataset directory which
holds a small collection of chain letters, which currently are
all variations of a common form, called the "Good Luck" or "Saint Jude"
chain letter.
Licensing:
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page
are distributed under
the GNU LGPL license.
Related Data and Programs:
CHAIN_LETTER_TREE,
a MATLAB program which
analyzes a similarity matrix for 11 versions of a single chain letter
and produces a dendrogram or tree diagram that suggests the degrees
of relatedness and the evolutionary history of the letters.
Datasets:
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luck_a.txt, example A;
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luck_b.txt, example B;
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luck_c.txt, example C;
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luck_d.txt, example D;
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luck_e.txt, example E;
quoted in a letter to Nature, Volume 371, 1 September 1994,
by Oliver Goodenough and Richard Dawkins.
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luck_f.txt, example F;
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luck_g.txt, example G;
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luck_h.txt, example H;
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luck_i.txt, example I;
appeared in the story "Philomena", by Jay McInerny,
The New Yorker, December 25, 1995 & 6 January 1, 1996.
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luck_j.txt, example J;
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luck_k.txt, example K;
Other items:
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dawkins.txt,
a letter by Richard Dawkins and Oliver Goodenough, discussing a chain letter;
You can go up one level to
the DATASETS directory.
Last revised on 22 January 2014.