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My freshman class (~4000) at university was sent an email by administrators via the freshman class mailing list. Someone replied, which lead to their email bein

My freshman class (~4000) at university was sent an email by administrators via the freshman class mailing list. Someone replied, which lead to their email being sent to the entire mailing list... another email asking to be removed from the mailing list, etc, suddenly everyone was hit by a deluge of hundreds of emails asking to be removed. Getting real flashbacks to that from the snarky / annoyed comments on this :)

saghm 4y ago
I had this happen at my job maybe six months ago? It was surreal because I'm young enough that I knew the trope from TV shows and stuff from the late 90s/early 2000s of people not knowing when to use "reply" instead of "reply all" but never actually had to deal with it by the time I grew up and starting working. The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the people who reply to tell everyone else to stop replying, as if that would solve the problem instead of making it worse.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  > The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the people who reply to tell everyone else to stop replying, as if that would solve the problem instead of making it worse. There's a very good chance that those replies are reducing the flood, assuming they're nowhere near a majority.
YPPH 4y ago
When we migrated from on-premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365, the default "reply" button in OWA was switched from reply-to-one to "reply all". After the CEO sent the first all-staff email on the new platform, we had at least three highly regrettable replies copied to the whole organisation, including one disclosing very confidential information intended only for the CEO.
isoprophlex 4y ago
Hehe when I was an intern working on a big chemical industry site someone also accidentally reply-alled a plant-wide safety mailing list. This quickly started a similar deluge of mails until someone high up the chain of command all-caps yelled "NO MORE REPLYING ON THIS MAIL, OR IT WILL BE AN HR VISIT FOR YOU" Good times
bspammer 4y ago
This happened to the NHS in the UK a few years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456

saghm 4y ago

I had this happen at my job maybe six months ago? It was surreal because I'm young enough that I knew the trope from TV shows and stuff from the late 90s/early 2000s of people not knowing when to use "reply" instead of "reply all" but never actually had to deal with it by the time I grew up and starting working. The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the people who reply to tell everyone else to stop replying, as if that would solve the problem instead of making it worse.

Dylan16807 4y ago
> The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the people who reply to tell everyone else to stop replying, as if that would solve the problem instead of making it worse. There's a very good chance that those replies are reducing the flood, assuming they're nowhere near a majority.

YPPH 4y ago

When we migrated from on-premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365, the default "reply" button in OWA was switched from reply-to-one to "reply all". After the CEO sent the first all-staff email on the new platform, we had at least three highly regrettable replies copied to the whole organisation, including one disclosing very confidential information intended only for the CEO.

isoprophlex 4y ago

Hehe when I was an intern working on a big chemical industry site someone also accidentally reply-alled a plant-wide safety mailing list. This quickly started a similar deluge of mails until someone high up the chain of command all-caps yelled "NO MORE REPLYING ON THIS MAIL, OR IT WILL BE AN HR VISIT FOR YOU" Good times

bspammer 4y ago

This happened to the NHS in the UK a few years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456