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Something similar happened at Cisco something like maybe 5 years ago? Someone sent the Bay Area employees or whatever list (probably at least some tens of thous
by spike021 4y ago
Something similar happened at Cisco something like maybe 5 years ago? Someone sent the Bay Area employees or whatever list (probably at least some tens of thousands of employees) an ask for a cook/chef they could hire to make meals for their family, IIRC. I think the reply-all's happened all week.
- kenrose 4y agoMS in 2005 as well.
- Sirened 4y agoAnd Apple in 1991 [1]. It's a very fun story actually, good read if you're in the business of writing "reliable" or "recoverable" software (aka pretty much everyone). A bad design choice in sendmail caused a cascading explosion of emails. I also highly recommend reading the rest of the book (?), the Unix Hater's Handbook is a wonderful bit of history and discussion of the design issues of the NIXs we all know and love/hate today. [1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf page 85
- idontpost 4y ago"Bad design choice" described basically every design choice involved in email.
- rstupek 4y agoCompaq in the mid 90s on banyan vines a friend leaving the company sent a company wide email listing his house. It wasn't supposed to be possible to email *
- imadethis 4y agoThat was sometime in 2015-2016. People still post recipes in big reply-all chains or when cisco-flame gets too heated.
- spike021 4y agoDang that really takes me back.