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Free bananas in the kitchen!!! (what happens when reply-all goes amok)
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- diN0bot 18y agohaha. we had a pretty raucous "tie day" email thread at work once. everyone kept posting pictures of people wearing ties, or tye dyes, or colonel tigh, etc. lots of good fun, but definitely consuming way too much time and enjoyment to be productive. finally the ceo stepped in to put an end to, though two higher ups still came back with even witty tie day references. the joyfulness of that discussion brings a smile to my face.
- cgranade 18y agoOK, you must work somewhere sufficiently awesome if pictures of Tigh come up on Tie Day.
- steveplace 18y agoWe had an epic email that got sent company wide and asked for donations to a church (complete accident; blame stupidity over malice). Took down the email servers for ~24 hours. Note: 6000+ employee company
- snprbob86 18y agoThe Outlook and Exchange teams stress test their systems with the following Microsoft distribution lists: internz, gmrchat, failboat, lolcats, and bacon
- gaius 18y agoIf I was on the Outlook team at MS I'd have made the reply-all button 4x as big, for the lulz. I am pretty sure with the Office Resource Kit you can disable it company-wide with a group policy, people just fire up Outlook one day and it's gone. No idea why Windows admins don't do that (you can still reply-to-all if you really want to using the Actions menu).
- agotterer 18y agoMy company makes people think twice about reply-alls. Check it out - http://vimeo.com/2543204 http://vimeo.com/2543204
- PStamatiou 18y agoworking for CV must be a blast. Tell Jake and Amir that I'm wearing their shirt as we speak..
- rudyfink 18y agoThat's the best solution to reply-all that I have ever seen.
- wallflower 18y agoReply-all doomsday scenarios seems like they could be avoided if reply-all is disabled when the count of recipients exceeds a certain number. On a side note, one of my colleagues has a first+last name that is one hyphen off from one of our largest distribution (external) mailing lists. I usually IM him instead.
- patio11 18y agoRight, but that doesn't necessarily help when the reply-all goes to one recipient... which is a mailing list with 60,000 people on it. As the Wizards of the Coast promotional mailing list was, the first time this happened to me in my Magic-playing days. (Strangely enough, it was also configured to accept messages from people outside the company. This was, in hindsight, a bad call.)
- DenisM 18y agoofftopic: you were going to post about spending $1000 for advertising http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420300 How is it coming along? :-)
- patio11 18y agoBusy with paying customers (just released new version of BCC, putting out brush fires). Check back on weekend.
- gsiener 18y agoWhat's his name? All Staff?
- ALee 18y agoBest thing to do is generally. Direct it to one person who is the responsible party and BCC everyone else. If it's a mass e-mail, then BCC everyone. I think it all starts from the top.
- snprbob86 18y agoNo! Please no! BCCs break everyones filters/rules. Some percentage of derailed threads end with "Moving DL to BCC" which drives me NUTS because I get this message in my Inbox which throws me off my rhythm while I try to figure out what the heck it is talking about. Personally, I think BCC should be eliminated. I think that every reasonable use case for BCC can be accomplished with a send and then a separate forward. Is there something I'm missing?
- tomjen 18y agoMy school used BCC to keep the name of the all student mailing list secret. Wise decision until the secretary forgot to put in in the right field.
- grouchyOldGuy 18y agoI feel the opposite way: eliminate CC: and keep BCC:. People use CC: way too often when a BCC: is more appropriate. Unfortunately, the worst abusers are the most clueless and least likely to change.
- johngunderman 18y agoEpic.
- johngunderman 18y agoThis down-voting is getting absurd. I understand getting a few for this comment, but -11 is frankly uncalled for. PG even asked people to refrain from doing this many down votes in a recent post. I am learning from my mistake of posting this, but I am relatively new to the forums. At the least I should be given some time to understand the requirements for posting (on this topic, I did find a forum rules page, but I had to Google it to find it, there were not obvious links from the forum afaik.) All I'm asking is that new forum members get a friendly pointer on posting guidelines, rather than being slapped down by large numbers of downvotes. Thank you.
- johngunderman 18y agoMay I ask that if you downvote this you explain the reasoning behind your downvote? I don't see any real reason to downvote this comment, but I would like to hear your opinions on the matter.
- brl 18y agoBecause it's fun watching you go bananas in the banana thread.
- run4yourlives 18y agoListen man, I feel your pain, as I also didn't think your "epic" is worthy of -12 score. What you shouldn't do though, is create your own thread bitching about it, because that is worthy of more down-modding. Just delete your comment to stem the bleeding and move on. Don't worry, if you have a lot of worthy things to say, -11 will be easy to make up.
- johngunderman 18y agoI would delete my comment, but the option is not there.
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- raleec 18y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429126 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429126 multinational + >25000 employees = lotsa fun...
- icey 18y agoIn a (US) Embassy, there is something in place called the Warden Cascade System. It's a low-tech solution to help crisis management. Basically it's a pyramid scheme centered around phone calls. Someone triggers the cascade by calling a few people, and they each call a few people, and so forth; until the message has been conveyed to everyone it needs to be conveyed to. Something like that would be handy in these sorts of situations - pick up the phone and call some offices, it's easier to manage these sorts of outbreaks as though you're dealing with many smaller entities than as one monolithic unit.