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Complete and total (self) pwnage

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WhiteKnight

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I arrived at work this morning to discover an email forward that I'm sure you're all familiar with claiming that MS is running a beta test on new email software and blah blah blah lots of money if you forward.

Well, some guy at one of our other locations forwarded this thing to the ENTIRE COMPANY. That's several thousand employees over 40 some countries. I have a feeling he's having a rough morning.
 
He's made so much money from forwarding the email it won't matter if he gets fired!
 
Don't be surprised if the local office dumbass decides to foward it to the same list thinking he can fool 'ole Bill into paying him, too.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Don't be surprised if the local office dumbass decides to foward it to the same list thinking he can fool 'ole Bill into paying him, too.
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I was about to say teh same.

Don;t be surprised when you get it forwarded back to you 10 times today.
 
We had the same thing happen. Except that three or four other people forwarded it to everyone. Then, four or five people hit "reply all" and asked to be removed from the sender's "distribution list". By the end of it, the email message had grown to 16 MB (replies quoted the original "to" list), sent to about 25k people (some of them several times, because they were on there individually and in various email groups). Took three days to get corporate email working again....
 
Originally posted by: axnff
We had the same thing happen. Except that three or four other people forwarded it to everyone. Then, four or five people hit "reply all" and asked to be removed from the sender's "distribution list". By the end of it, the email message had grown to 16 MB (replies quoted the original "to" list), sent to about 25k people (some of them several times, because they were on there individually and in various email groups). Took three days to get corporate email working again....
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I think I remember you (or someone else) posting about this. That was funny.
 
Originally posted by: axnff
We had the same thing happen. Except that three or four other people forwarded it to everyone. Then, four or five people hit "reply all" and asked to be removed from the sender's "distribution list". By the end of it, the email message had grown to 16 MB (replies quoted the original "to" list), sent to about 25k people (some of them several times, because they were on there individually and in various email groups). Took three days to get corporate email working again....
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I worked at a government office in IT and we were implementing a new Exchange system to replace a muh older email system; the communications officer managed to email a 100mb training video to all 9000 users, which would have been bad enough for bandwidth if the technical guys had already implemented single-instance-storage properly. They hadn't; shockingly very little work was done that day.
 
What's almost as idiotic as the original act is all these other people who feel the need to let the entire company know that they've deleted the original email. There are also a few where people are making poorly formed jokes about beach front property in Greenland. They really are just as stupid as the original guy to reply to all.
 
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