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Somebody managed to find a low level PDL that referenced nearly everyone in the company globally. Just the reply-all "I'm not sure this as anything to do with
by zentiggr 8y ago
Somebody managed to find a low level PDL that referenced nearly everyone in the company globally. Just the reply-all "I'm not sure this as anything to do with me, please take me off your DL" mails forced the servers to be taken down and nearly five hours of global mail handling was wiped clean... it was about seven hours before accounts started acting normally again. Sorta amusing from the random employee view.
- saagarjha 8y agoThis sort of thing was surprisingly common at my old job. Someone would find a list that seemed relevant, ask a question on it, and not realize the list had as a sublist something like basically all of software engineering. Then people would reply-all to that asking to be taken off the list that they didn’t need to be on…