There is the devil, and then are the guys who do his performance appraisals. Or, as they’re commonly known, “the inventors of e-mail”.   

Whether it was Roy Tomlinson and ARPANET, Shiva Ayyadurai, or some other conspiracy theorist who set the world of inboxes and outboxes in motion (it’s a hotly contested title), they have a lot to answer for.   ..

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