FROM A RECENT EMAIL
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We’ve had a “national outbreak” of the “reply all” virus.
It’s really not a virus. But it might as well be.
It’s when, to get off a distribution, some poor soul — usually in a fit of pique — does a “reply all” and says “take me off the list”. Others respond with a “reply all” to either chime in about getting off the distribution, or castigate the transgressor. If the distribution list is really large and / or there are lots of computing centers involved, it can create an overwhelming “fire storm” of messages that can overwhelm an infrastructure.
It usually takes some one in Leadership saying politely “shut up”, or the equivalent, to stop it. I’ve appended an attempt to damp it.
I just thought you’d want to pass along a warning about the use of “reply all”.
Lest it be followed with the “pink slip” virus. :-)
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I don’t blame people. I blame poorly designed software.
How hard would it have been to say “Confirm reply all to a distribution list”?
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