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Re: Some guy emails all of Microsoft and causes email shitstorm

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post #6

I can't believe people don't know the many problems created by e-mails with visible (i.e. CC) lists of addresses. Here's my article on this topic: http://arachnoid.com/opinion/help_the_crooks.html

(It was a broken mailing list, not an explicit list of addresses.)

Re: Some guy emails all of Microsoft and causes email shitstorm

#15
I have seen similar email "storm" a couple of times when I was working in HP. It was not the whole of the company but a large business group probably a tenth of the company. It would start with a mail send to a large email list. People would start replying to all asking to be removed from the list or saying that they are not the intended recipient of the mail. After that it would be the "Please dont reply to all" mails. And that will go on and on . I remember a particular one that went into over a 100 mails.

It is interesting how a large group of smart people end up doing this.

Re: Some guy emails all of Microsoft and causes email shitstorm

#16

I have seen similar email "storm" a couple of times when I was working in HP. It was not the whole of the company but a large business group probably a tenth of the company. It would start with a mail send to a large email list. People would start replying to all asking to be removed from the list or saying that they are not the intended recipient of the mail. After that it would be the "Please dont reply to all" mai…

my guess they are intentionally doing reply all just to piss off people, and it's fun!

Re: Some guy emails all of Microsoft and causes email shitstorm

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post #6

I can't believe people don't know the many problems created by e-mails with visible (i.e. CC) lists of addresses. Here's my article on this topic: http://arachnoid.com/opinion/help_the_crooks.html

(It was a broken mailing list, not an explicit list of addresses.)

Yes -- that would explain why hitting "reply all" was the focus of the controversy.
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