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Never really happened to me, but Thunderbird has a pretty good feature for this case: "Ignore message thread". I'm sure other mail clients have this feature as
by jraph 3y ago
Never really happened to me, but Thunderbird has a pretty good feature for this case: "Ignore message thread". I'm sure other mail clients have this feature as well.
If someone is bothered by such a thread, it's really easy to avoid.
- bhandziuk 3y agoIf people understood this feature they probably would also understand why they are in a reply-all storm and not need that feature.
- GuB-42 3y agoIt happened to me in a large company I worked with. Someone, probably an admin sent an email to the entire company, literally tens of thousands of people in the "To:" field. Of course, a few of them replied-all, then others replied to tell people to stop replying, etc... The server couldn't follow and mail couldn't be delivered fast enough, prompting even more replies. Email unrelated to the incident took 30 minutes to come through. Admins had to intervene, and the servers were down for about 4 hours, everything related to the incident was deleted server-side, and probably blacklisted too. The client couldn't do much, we didn't even get that many emails (a few dozens at most) since the server couldn't deliver them. It was a very expensive email for sure.
- nytesky 3y agogmail has the “mute” feature single key press ‘m’ away. I admit have been tempted to respond to some reply-all maelstrom mailstorms to herald the mute key…