So, how was their reaction after you called them butt-licking morons?
Somewhere between “I should have hired that guard” and “thank god I can still draw”, I guess? Virtual or real black eyes?
That guard should also verify that the e-mail merits being sent to everyone, and not only when responding.
Yes, it’s very nice that [colleague in another country] has their birthday and you’re wishing them good fortune, but you don’t need to use the global mailing list for that.
Also, you don’t need to send an e-mail to lists containing, combined, 8.000 e-mail addresses because you got an e-mail that was not intended for you…
“Authentication key” has a specific meaning in the e-mail world (which, admittedly, is not very well understood by everyone), and it’s cool to see its real-world… er… I mean “bug-world” counterpart used here.
You know, my email provider – and all of my communications channels, come to think of it – has no ‘reply all/send all’ button. And I thank the goddess that it doesn’t, because I have enough trouble sending text replies to the wrong number.
Oh gawd, years ago, I came in quite early one day, and read an email that our promised raise was being cancelled. As I always do, I hit reply and redirected it to my wife, with the comment: “See honey, you’re not the only one who works for a company who screws you.” And hit send. Unfortunately, I forgot to erase the other address, which was “all Ontario”, so everyone in my organization got that. VERY thankfully, a friend of mine who had recently been promoted to our provincial HQ replied immediately and said “Did you REALLY mean to send this to everyone?” Also, thankfully, our email system allows you to delete sent messages from receiver’s mailboxes. I frantically hit “erase from all” and noted that at that hour, only 8 people had time to read it, none of them from management. Phew! They should disable the “reply all” feature.
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a reply-all storm. I’ve seen two of them. 20,000 people involved. The initial is bad enough–but then you get the “Stop hitting ‘Reply All'” emails. And the “Stop saying to not hit ‘Reply All’ ” emails. FOUR HOURS OF THEM.
So, how was their reaction after you called them butt-licking morons?
Somewhere between “I should have hired that guard” and “thank god I can still draw”, I guess? Virtual or real black eyes?
That guard should also verify that the e-mail merits being sent to everyone, and not only when responding.
Yes, it’s very nice that [colleague in another country] has their birthday and you’re wishing them good fortune, but you don’t need to use the global mailing list for that.
Also, you don’t need to send an e-mail to lists containing, combined, 8.000 e-mail addresses because you got an e-mail that was not intended for you…
oh man those chains of “this was not intended for me, please take me off the list” emails …
followed by the “please don’t respond to all” emails …
makes me wish for bug’s solution
We had a monster chain of this type this January with 176 messages… In a way, it was bizarrely hilarious.
Oh no, he’s gone nuclear.
“His authentication key”! Nice!
“Authentication key” has a specific meaning in the e-mail world (which, admittedly, is not very well understood by everyone), and it’s cool to see its real-world… er… I mean “bug-world” counterpart used here.
Knowing Adam’s self-admitted lack of tech knowledge, I assume it was a happy coincidence
You know, my email provider – and all of my communications channels, come to think of it – has no ‘reply all/send all’ button. And I thank the goddess that it doesn’t, because I have enough trouble sending text replies to the wrong number.
Oh gawd, years ago, I came in quite early one day, and read an email that our promised raise was being cancelled. As I always do, I hit reply and redirected it to my wife, with the comment: “See honey, you’re not the only one who works for a company who screws you.” And hit send. Unfortunately, I forgot to erase the other address, which was “all Ontario”, so everyone in my organization got that. VERY thankfully, a friend of mine who had recently been promoted to our provincial HQ replied immediately and said “Did you REALLY mean to send this to everyone?” Also, thankfully, our email system allows you to delete sent messages from receiver’s mailboxes. I frantically hit “erase from all” and noted that at that hour, only 8 people had time to read it, none of them from management. Phew! They should disable the “reply all” feature.
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a reply-all storm. I’ve seen two of them. 20,000 people involved. The initial is bad enough–but then you get the “Stop hitting ‘Reply All'” emails. And the “Stop saying to not hit ‘Reply All’ ” emails. FOUR HOURS OF THEM.