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Replyallcalypse is always fun. I experienced one a few years ago when working at a consulting company with 40k IT consultants. There were thousands of reply-all

Replyallcalypse is always fun. I experienced one a few years ago when working at a consulting company with 40k IT consultants. There were thousands of reply-all until the mail servers went down. It baffled me how so many IT consultants could see their mailbox fill up with endless "stop sending me mail"-mails and think "I better tell everyone to stop mailing me".

pharmakom 4y ago
Surely it’s part of the fun in an otherwise dull work day? Like bouncing a beach balloon at a concert.
- RalfWausE 4y ago
  The most destrutive form of fun i had - now repeated in multiple companies and organisations - was to simply place a Flummi (a small hard bouncy ball) in an populated space: It is guaranteed that you will relatively fast hear the typical "thud-thud-thud" of someone throwing it against a wall... the sound will get louder and will inevitable lead to a "thud... Thud... THUD... crash...". My conclusion from this social experiment is: 1: Humans are unable to leave a ball lying around 2: Throwing a hard rubber ball in an enclosed space will lead to destruction 3: It is irrelevant how old, dignified or high up people are in the hierarchy of an organisation to withstand the in 1 mentioned effect.
_ph_ 4y ago
Many years ago we had one too. It was very hot in the first day or two, but like with a forest fire, you had new outbreaks when people returned from vacation and before having read any other replies, replied to all "unsubscribe" or "why am I getting this?". Which prompted again replies, not to reply to all and so on... Took about two weeks to get completely stopped. It seems, after that, mail to all in the company was effectively eliminated except for a whitelist of accounts.
tomjen3 4y ago
Even outlook has the mute functionality these days.

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Replyallcalypse is always fun. I experienced one a few years ago when working at a consulting company with 40k IT consultants. There were thousands of reply-all

by pgsandstrom 4y ago

pharmakom 4y ago
Surely it’s part of the fun in an otherwise dull work day? Like bouncing a beach balloon at a concert.
- RalfWausE 4y ago
  The most destrutive form of fun i had - now repeated in multiple companies and organisations - was to simply place a Flummi (a small hard bouncy ball) in an populated space: It is guaranteed that you will relatively fast hear the typical "thud-thud-thud" of someone throwing it against a wall... the sound will get louder and will inevitable lead to a "thud... Thud... THUD... crash...". My conclusion from this social experiment is: 1: Humans are unable to leave a ball lying around 2: Throwing a hard rubber ball in an enclosed space will lead to destruction 3: It is irrelevant how old, dignified or high up people are in the hierarchy of an organisation to withstand the in 1 mentioned effect.
_ph_ 4y ago
Many years ago we had one too. It was very hot in the first day or two, but like with a forest fire, you had new outbreaks when people returned from vacation and before having read any other replies, replied to all "unsubscribe" or "why am I getting this?". Which prompted again replies, not to reply to all and so on... Took about two weeks to get completely stopped. It seems, after that, mail to all in the company was effectively eliminated except for a whitelist of accounts.
tomjen3 4y ago
Even outlook has the mute functionality these days.