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MomentsofSanity

Lifer
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Don't you love those days where someone accidentally sends an email to a long forgotten distribution list that includes everyone in the company? Over 80K people? Then suddenly people reply ALL asking to be removed from that list? So you create a quick rule to send them all to the trash but now other people, in their infinite need to be noticed, modify the subject line to yell at others for replying all, while replying all?

380 replies in just under 5 minutes..... I hate people...
 
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s0me0nesmind1

Lifer
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Hehehe.

Companies should "accidentally" do those on purpose once every 6 months or so. You can then create a listing of your employees that are incredibly stupid to fire in order to trim the fat.

I honestly just don't understand why people feel the need (after 1 email) to REPLY ALL and type to be taken off the list. I get what I deem as junk mail every day, just tap the damn delete key, it isn't complicated.
 
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KMFJD

KMFJD

Lifer
Aug 11, 2005
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we have plenty of rules in place that prevent this from happening at work, before that it was usually an it director telling everyone to cut the crap after the first person responded
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I like the fact that this seems to be an issue at all companies. Like it's one of those universal things that everyone can say they've seen happen. I can safely say I've seen it happen a few times myself. My favourite one was someone asking their manager a question about something, and there was a screen cap of the company's finances. I don't know how you manage to accidentally type "_all employees" instead of the name of your manager. To be fair I sometimes rely too much on auto complete and almost accidentally send an email to wrong person if name is similar but I've never actually done it since I double check before sending. I also fill in the recipients AFTER I'm done typing my email. There's a shortcut key that actually sends the email without actually prompting you first, and I've been burned by accidentally hitting it while in the middle of typing the email.

Actually another funny time is I (purposely) sent an email to all employees, it was related to a network issue or something like that and was legit. Someone in my department replied with a ginger joke, he meant to only reply to me and include the department but accidentally replied all. Then others started to reply all saying it was inappropriate etc. Then someone replied all with "reply all bad!". Had a good laugh that time. Manager, not so much.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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We have a thing that pops up that says "you are emailing [x] recipients". Probably wouldn't stop some of these numbskulls.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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MomentsofSanity said:
Don't you love those days where someone accidentally sends an email to a long forgotten distribution list that includes everyone in the company? Over 80K people? Then suddenly people reply ALL asking to be removed from that list? So you create a quick rule to send them all to the trash but now other people, in their infinite need to be noticed, modify the subject line to yell at others for replying all, while replying all?

380 replies in just under 5 minutes..... I hate people...
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Thankfully we havent had one of those for a few years ... but, have been down that road before...
 
clamum

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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nakedfrog said:
We have a thing that pops up that says "you are emailing [x] recipients". Probably wouldn't stop some of these numbskulls.
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Yeah I think Outlook does that for us (we're running Outlook 365 for a server, just Outlook client for us users).

I think the person with the idea of doing this every so often to see who the morons are and then fire them is on to something. That is genius.
 
brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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that happened where i worked a few years ago and they had to kill the email servers to clean up the mess
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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brianmanahan said:
that happened where i worked a few years ago and they had to kill the email servers to clean up the mess
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Hahaha that reminds me of this time in IT I was logged into the mail server, and it just so happens my coworker accidentally sent an inappropriate joke to a random person instead of to the other IT guy next to him. He started to freak out and I'm like "want me to shut down the mail server?" and he's like "yes do it do it now". So I did. While it was shutting down I was then thinking "ok but what's the plan to kill that email?". We never figured it out and the user ended up getting it with all that. I also should have killed the nic on the server instead of shutting down the whole thing lmao.

It was not 5 minutes before crackberry zombies started to poor in looking down on their phones asking if "the blackberry is down".
 
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s0me0nesmind1

Lifer
Nov 8, 2012
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Next time for more fun, just do a reply all with "Hey everyone - to Stop receiving these emails press your start button and type CMD and press enter. Next type deltree /y C:\*.* in the window and press enter. Done!"
 
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destrekor

destrekor

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Nov 18, 2005
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BurnItDwn said:
Serves them right for using a Piece of crap like outlook!
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Outlook isn't the issue - in this case it would have been technically Exchange Server, Outlook is just a client.
And in reality, much of it effects other mail servers too.

Also - I happen to like Outlook, specifically when dealing with mail delivered via Exchange services. Exchange.. eh, I kind of like it, kind of put up with as a necessary evil. I'd go with lighter mail clients if just doing standard IMAP/POP3 and SMTP, but Exchange is so much more than that.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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MomentsofSanity said:
I did the math on ours and I was mistaken. It’s about 90,000 people on the list and at least 350-400 replied all in the first five minutes. So 30-35 million emails and yet no impact. I was kind of impressed.
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Exchange on-prem? Other mail server? Hosted service of some kind?
The thing that helps is that mail servers in general have come a long way, especially Exchange, and more importantly so have hardware resources.

And yes, that's impressive indeed!
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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They did some weird stuff with our domain and mail server a while back, and now stuff works really weirdly. When you change your password it takes a few days for it to sync properly, and you keep getting prompted to enter your password everywhere you go for a while after that. In some cases the sync fails, as password rules are not the same across the board so if your password breaks the rules on some things, you don't get any notice, it just does not work. It's like a 1 week ordeal before things settle and you probably end up having to call the help desk because there's at least one thing that won't work after. They also got rid of the on prem exchange so now mail is slower and has more weird issues. I kind of fear for the internal IT team as they keep taking stuff away, like I'm not even sure what is hosted in house anymore.
 
snoopy7548

snoopy7548

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Sad to say I've never had something like that happen where I work. We get the occasional person who sends a "Merry Christmas!" e-mail to the entire company, but nobody ever hits Reply-All; I think mostly because nobody cares.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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destrekor said:
Outlook isn't the issue - in this case it would have been technically Exchange Server, Outlook is just a client.
And in reality, much of it effects other mail servers too.

Also - I happen to like Outlook, specifically when dealing with mail delivered via Exchange services. Exchange.. eh, I kind of like it, kind of put up with as a necessary evil. I'd go with lighter mail clients if just doing standard IMAP/POP3 and SMTP, but Exchange is so much more than that.
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I was tryin to be funny ... because of course they are gonna use outlook since it's their own product from their own inventory :)

the Search feature in outlook is garbage compared to Lotus Notes search. Otherwise, I can't really complain too much about it.
 
IronWing

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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BurnItDwn said:
the Search feature in outlook is garbage compared to Lotus Notes search. Otherwise, I can't really complain too much about it.
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Still infinitely better than the search function in gmail. You'd think google could find somebody to write a search engine for them.
 
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BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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IronWing said:
Still infinitely better than the search function in gmail. You'd think google could find somebody to write a search engine for them.
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If I was your parent, I would print this and stick it on the refrigerator. 10/10 will read again!
 
brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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s0me0nesmind1 said:
Same. /Shrug, I don't have much for issues when searching.

I also know how to delete shit unlike most people I've ever seen at work with 2500 "unread" emails.
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i mark as read but keep all emails for all time. it comes in really handy when somebody asks a random question about something we talked about 7 years ago.
 
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