"Reply to All": instrument of Satan?

[Fausto]

What is it that people cannot discern the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All"? Is it really so hard??!?

Example:

An email appears in my inbox asking for 25 volunteers to test a new property management system thingy here at the CDC. It states very clearly in the body of the message that those interested should reply only to the originator of the message and that they would send out a second notice once they'd filled the 25 slots.

This, of course, triggers a flurry of "I'm interested" messages.....to everyone on the goddamn list.

After about 40 of these, the "We have filled all slots, please do not reply further to the original email" notice appears.

People, being morons, continue to reply (To all.....naturally) to the original email saying they're interested.

Finally, someone gets fed up and sends a "Stop fscking replying to all you assclowns! You're swamping my Inbox!"

What happens? A bunch of other people pipe up to say "Yeah! Quit it!".........and of course they "reply to all" as well to vent.

This went on for most of one day and accounted for about 200 messages total as people bitched about "reply to all" and other clueless people opened their mailboxes for the first time that day and "replied to all" to volunteer for the program that had already been filled for the better part of 6 hours. :|

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
What is it that people cannot discern the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All"? Is it really so hard??!?

Does that make BCC and agent of God?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Fausto1
What is it that people cannot discern the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All"? Is it really so hard??!?

Does that make BCC and agent of God?

I think that's a topic for a separate thread. 😛

 

[Spooner]

It's worse when the idiots DON'T reply to all when supposed to and importnat information is lost

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Fausto1
What is it that people cannot discern the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All"? Is it really so hard??!?

Does that make BCC and agent of God?

Did you get the memo? BCC does not stand for Blind Carbon Copy, it stands for Blessed Command of Christ.

 

[Avatar26]

And for this reason, no ATOTer will ever be safe at work, for neffing hands are the Devil's playthings...

 

[NTB]

Here's a good T-shirt for you. (You'd be on the distributing end, of course 😛 ). Come to think of it, I need one of these...I work for the IT department here at school during the summer. Using "reply to all" is a dumb mistake to make though. I've been using e-mail for years and haven't done it yet.

Nate

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Fausto1
What is it that people cannot discern the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All"? Is it really so hard??!?

Does that make BCC and agent of God?

I've personally introduced several morons to BCC, all hail the Great BCC.

 

[ElFenix]

i usually made a point to those spamming everyone to message them and tell them that me and the rest of my department which has nothing to do with yours doesn't appreciate your inane chatter

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Instead, I'd say "instrument of Bob Saget". The hilarity from unintentional reply to all responses is just off the scale.

On second thought, I guess I'm agreeing with you.

 

[BooGiMaN]

and these are the people responisble for keeping us safe from bad cooties you say?

i feel much safer now!😛

 

[TJN23]

omg rofl!!

sorry as much as that sucks thats frickin hilarious!

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
and these are the people responisble for keeping us safe from bad cooties you say?

i feel much safer now!😛

Actually, I think it's better that they're more knowledgeable in cooties than computers!