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Happened in my wife’s company of around 40k people. Mail to all, replies to stop replying, many hours to stop the firestorm. Then next timezone 8 hours out star

Happened in my wife’s company of around 40k people. Mail to all, replies to stop replying, many hours to stop the firestorm. Then next timezone 8 hours out started replying. I don’t know why they didn’t just kill permissions to the mailing list.

anamexis 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
spockz 4y ago
Outlook has this amazing feature to ignore email threads: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ignore-all-email-messages-in-a-conversation-5ec0c3c2-3440-484e-9aca-0588234d44e9 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ignore-all-email-...
- monkpit 4y ago
  They also have Reply Storm Protection in Exchange now: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/reply-all-storm-protection-in-exchange-online/ba-p/1369811 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/re...
cycomanic 4y ago
Similar thing happened at uni when I was doing a PhD. The graduate office had some sort of mailing list which included all PhD students (or maybe even graduate students). There was maybe one mail a year to this list. At some point someone replied to the list (don't ask why the allowed everyone to post), they want to be unsubscribe, trigger a torrent of emails of people wanting to unsubscribe, people telling people to use the link on the email, people asking why they get this email, others telling everyone to stop replying (the irony). It was a study of human psychology. The whole thing lasted a week, I think in the end somebody was competent enough to restrict who could write to the list or maybe they just nuked the list.
_Microft 4y ago
Are you familiar with this story of an email storm at Microsoft already? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...

anamexis 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm

spockz 4y ago

Outlook has this amazing feature to ignore email threads: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ignore-all-email-messages-in-a-conversation-5ec0c3c2-3440-484e-9aca-0588234d44e9 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ignore-all-email-...

monkpit 4y ago
They also have Reply Storm Protection in Exchange now: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/reply-all-storm-protection-in-exchange-online/ba-p/1369811 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/re...

cycomanic 4y ago

Similar thing happened at uni when I was doing a PhD. The graduate office had some sort of mailing list which included all PhD students (or maybe even graduate students). There was maybe one mail a year to this list. At some point someone replied to the list (don't ask why the allowed everyone to post), they want to be unsubscribe, trigger a torrent of emails of people wanting to unsubscribe, people telling people to use the link on the email, people asking why they get this email, others telling everyone to stop replying (the irony). It was a study of human psychology. The whole thing lasted a week, I think in the end somebody was competent enough to restrict who could write to the list or maybe they just nuked the list.

_Microft 4y ago

Are you familiar with this story of an email storm at Microsoft already? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...