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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
http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2012/11/27/replyallcalypse-201...
It is interesting how a large group of smart people end up doing this.
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…
An excellent writeup of the incident (by someone else): http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/16/replyall/
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.)
Nobody I talked to on the Microsoft campus tonight knew of this, so no, not "all of Microsoft". Flagged as cruft.