I saw an email storm on a mailing list for lawyers. Due to a misconfiguration out of office notices weren't suppressed and forwarded to the mailing list. Soon s

I saw an email storm on a mailing list for lawyers. Due to a misconfiguration out of office notices weren't suppressed and forwarded to the mailing list. Soon several lawyers who were taking off were contributing to the storm. I immediately saw the self-reinforcing avalanche and told the operator to shut down the mailing list server.