When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
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Re: When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
#2As mentioned by the pdf, "Muting or ignoring conversations" in Gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/47787?hl=en
Re: When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
#3This 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.)
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#4This 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.
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#5This 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.)
For me: I just ignore most emails people send and use slack.
In fact, I avoid reading around 80% of my emails. Too much noise not enough signal. The signal usually comes with a lot of human interference making it difficult to figure out what it means.
However, systems which email me things automatically? An, overwhelming amount of noisy emails.
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#6This 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.)
Had this happen last year. Set up a rule to auto send to spam with the emails subject title in outlook. Done.
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#7Relevant Wikipedia page, since the article is completely lacking in historical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
"On 14 October 1997, a Microsoft employee noticed that they were on an as-yet unknown email distribution list 'Bedlam DL3', and emailed the list asking to be removed. This list contained approximately a quarter of the company's employees, 13,000 email addresses. Other users replied to the list with similar requests and still others responded with pleas to stop replying to the list. A Microsoft employee estimates that 15 million emails were sent, using 195 GB of traffic."
Re: When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
#8Relevant Wikipedia page, since the article is completely lacking in historical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm "On 14 October 1997, a Microsoft employee noticed that they were on an as-yet unknown email distribution list 'Bedlam DL3', and emailed the list asking to be removed. This list contained approximately a quarter of the company's employees, 13,000 email addresses. Other users replied to the…
Anyone who has worked for Amazon has heard tales of "UNSUBSCRIBE"
Re: When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
#9This 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 professional, educated people!
My favourite one of all time though is when a reply-all chain (office wide, think 1000+ recipients....) was fully in its stride and someone attached a 10mb animated GIF.
Needless to say, I don't think the people managing the Outlook Exchange servers had a good day that day trying to cope with that one...
Re: When I’m Mistakenly on an Email Chain, Should I Reply All Asking to Be Removed?
#10This 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.)
Outlook defaults to Reply (sender only), and many systems will flag large numbers of CC entries as spam. Also, people have moved so much of their correspondence to Facebook etc.