In more modern times, within the last couple months, there was the Epic/Unreal Engine Github Email Storm[0][1] at minium 60m emails, because a few hundred thous

In more modern times, within the last couple months, there was the Epic/Unreal Engine Github Email Storm[0][1] at minium 60m emails, because a few hundred thousand people were getting over a hundred emails within a minute or so thanks to a user trying to get a minor patch pulled in so they could get some credit/resume line/who knows. They "@"tted the whole membership of the organization. There was a few repeats of the occurrence immediately afterwards as well by some trolls. A fun aside is the article on wikipedia [1] begins with Jordan Hubbard and ends with Epic: [0] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1435395-epic-games-github-email-storm-~60-mil-emails-sent-mini-tech-news/ https://linustechtips.com/topic/1435395-epic-games-github-em... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm