40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone

Re:40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone by julesie on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @02:36PM (#4844240)

When I worked at Accenture this happened at least every 6 months if not more often.

The replies were typically broken into two camps:

1) Those who, despite the ever growing list of replies, couldn't work out what was happening and asked for themselves to be removed from the list.

2) Those who understood the phenomenon but added fuel to the fire nonetheless by sending out a "Would everybody please stop replying all" mail.

Inevitably some more #1's would get confused send more 'please remove me' mails until a another #2 would complete the cycle once more.

Every. Time.

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Re:40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone by mweatherill on Thursday November 29, 2012 @01:44AM (#4846544)

My employer is a global IT company and the exact same thing happens on mailing lists for 10,000+ people. I reply-all to let them know that there is cake in the lunch room.

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Re:40,000 NYU students realize they can 'reply all' to everyone by samspot on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:33PM (#4845166)

I was on an fda list like this, and everytime someone messed it up 40+ people would reply-all with "I think you sent this to the wrong person".

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