Whoever invented the "reply to all" option needs to be shot

[K1052]

And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: K1052
And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

I love Reply-to-all when someone has a baby, graduates, or gets married. Everyone in the company replies to everyone in the company about how happy they are for the guy. Any time I see "Inbox (2.448e13)" in Outlook, I know that someone had a baby while getting married after graduating.

 

[randay]

learn2bcc

 

[her209]

What about the Reply to None. That rocks!

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: K1052
And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

Curious...why are you responding to E-mails that you were carboned on? Let the reply-to-all shitstorm go.

You don't have to respond to those.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: randay
learn2bcc

yes, that would be logical except for the fact that our ops dept decided it was necessary to see exactly who was on the receiving end of these emails every time they are sent out......even though they know from experience and it hasn't changed in 6 years

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: K1052
And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

Curious...why are you responding to E-mails that you were carboned on? Let the reply-to-all shitstorm go.

You don't have to respond to those.

I sent the original email....

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: K1052
And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

Obviously you should have made more aggressive use of Bcc: in your original email, in order to anticipation-block the reply-to-all shitstorm that you brought on yourself. You fail at teh Intarn3tz.

EDIT (because I read about your ops department): Screw your ops department, unless it is totally disabled on the server level, send it with Bcc: anyway.

EDIT 2: If it is disabled (or it is "prohibited" and you are too candy assed to stand up to that BS), take some time and write some VBA code to send the same message individually to each person.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: K1052
And those who use it when it really dosen't need to be used should meet the same fate....

Most of my day tomorrow will be taken up replying to incessant emails as a consequence of this. Something that could have been handled in one single email to the originator (me) now unleashes a shitstorm of email and cubicle stop by's across multiple departments that will last at least a day. If I had a car at my disposal I would get in it and drive to where this person is and beat them about the legs with a rather expensive custom 9 iron while I disparage their very conception.

/rant

Obviously you should have made more aggressive use of Bcc: in your original email, in order to anticipation-block the reply-to-all shitstorm that you brought on yourself. You fail at teh Intarn3tz.

I am prohibited from doing so....see above

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yeah, the misuse of mail groups are just as bad or worse

We had a lady last year accidently click the global employees group and send an email to 8k employees world wide proclaiming "Cookies are in the breakroom", what a shitstorm that started the next two hours our mail servers were hammered with people responding to the email. And yes quite a few idiots hit reply all to that email.

 

[Paratus]

At work a few years ago we had an IT bulliten sent to all ~10000 employees. Some yahoo replied all to take him off distribution. Then another idiot replied all to tell him not to reply all.

It died out 80 reply alls later........

posted via Palm Life Drive

 

[Capt Caveman]

It is what it is.

 

[Aikouka]

I get those a lot, but nothing company-wide.... Although the reply alls tend to be worthwhile, it's just that they're so common. Although, there was a corp-wide e-mail that was pretty much to the tune of, "don't use reply all if you do not need to" because the mail server had crashed earlier that day :laugh:.

 

[Abe Froman]

$hit happens...how many people responded?

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, it should be password protected, i agree

 

[troytime]

at my old job, some dumbshit sent a message to ALL gannett companies (several thousand addresses) through the exchange server asking for everyone to go vote for him for some Preferred Stock Man of the Year contest.

More than 100 people hit Reply All and told him that it was innapropriate.
About 100 more hit Reply All telling others to stop Replying

edit: the mail system went down and took several days to clear up the mess.

 

[Ruptga]

I'd never heard of this phenomenon before, but it's hilarious :laugh:

I actually expected this to be something about messages with something like Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd:Fwd: Plz rad, very impartant! in the subject line.

 

[HammerCurl]

We had a running spam e-mail, someone got a hold of all the business departments and sent out a message saying "If you would like to be taken off the spam e-mail list, hit reply all and say "take me off the list". Yea, that lasted for a whole year, you'd also get people e-mailing STOP HITTING REPLY ALL YOU MOTHERF*CKING morons and other shit. I blame this on bad female drivers, they're the ones who don't know jack shit about computers either

 

[Platypus]

ahaha, that sucks

 

[andylawcc]

Guns don't kill ppl, ppl kill ppl...

don't hate Reply All, just hate the idiot who can't use it right.

 

[FallenHero]

Guy at work attached a 10 meg file of christmas carols near christmas time then sent the mail out to "all staff." Not sure if it took or not, he sent it again...and again. 30,000 emails later, the server crashed.

 

[2Dead]

Originally posted by: Paratus
At work a few years ago we had an IT bulliten sent to all ~10000 employees. Some yahoo replied all to take him off distribution. Then another idiot replied all to tell him not to reply all.

It died out 80 reply alls later........

posted via Palm Life Drive

Same happened here. It ended when the CEO told everyone to stop replying or else. A month later it happened again but there weren't as mant replies.

 

[440sixpack]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy

We had a lady last year accidently click the global employees group and send an email to 8k employees world wide proclaiming "Cookies are in the breakroom", what a shitstorm that started the next two hours our mail servers were hammered with people responding to the email. And yes quite a few idiots hit reply all to that email.

LOL, I can just picture all the people at every location scrambling down to the breakrooms looking for cookies that weren't there... "WTF?! Where are the cookies - I bet Rafe ate them..." Chaos ensues, fights erupt worldwide... what a great visual.

 

[BurnItDwn]

People just need to use it properly.
The Reply to All function is VERY useful in many cases.
When there are lots of people from different departments involved in projects, it's necessary to keep everybody informed.

 

[DrPizza]

I don't work in the IT department at my job. What must be equally irritating for them is the storm that occurs after someone decides to make their emails cuter and more seasonal by liberally incorporating themed animated gif's in their email, THEN idiots use: "reply all with history"

My favorite way of dealing with the idiots who "reply all" is to attempt to send a personal reply to them that seems like sincere confusion about their email. Of course, I remove the first email from the reply and shorten the subject to just "re:" It's fun to see how many emails I can cause them to generate while clearing up my "confusion."