When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?

Post by nkrisc » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #38

nkrisc wrote: post #37

At a former job someone sent a completely inane email asking about something personal to an HR email list or all people in the company, about 21,000 people. Why does such an email list even exist? For some kind of HR emergency? Aren't there other emergency messaging systems that could be more effective?

At my company, certain lists can only be used by certain people to prevent exactly this sort of thing.

Post by antognini » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 9:12 PM UTC

djhworld wrote: post #9

nofinator wrote: post #3

This is purely anecdotal, but I am seeing far fewer replyallpocalypses than I did 10-15 years ago. Has something changed, like better server or client email software? Or perhaps admins and users are more savvy about avoiding this kind of behavior? (Maybe I've just been lucky to not have to deal with one of these for several years.)

I've seen maybe 1 a year over the past 5 years. The best ones are the ones that are sent out by accident, like, cc'ing in the distribution list to EVERY employee by mistake. I love it and hate it, I find it laughable that it just keeps on going, but it makes me sad that some humans cannot grasp what they are doing, nor learn from the example, and this is in huge global organisations too, full of supposedly profession…

Post by cafard » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 11:19 PM UTC

EStudley wrote: post #4

nofinator wrote: post #3

This is purely anecdotal, but I am seeing far fewer replyallpocalypses than I did 10-15 years ago. Has something changed, like better server or client email software? Or perhaps admins and users are more savvy about avoiding this kind of behavior? (Maybe I've just been lucky to not have to deal with one of these for several years.)

I think in general overuse of "reply all" has been publicly shamed in recent years. Internet etiquette has evolved past sending chain mail office jokes.