I think people are just trolling now. This is like having Nas on company email.

I think people are just trolling now. This is like having Nas on company email.

I hope Cutler gets an email.

There was some accidental email that went out to what must be half of my company across the country today. What has ensued is perhaps the funniest and most depressing thing I've witnessed in some time. There are thousands of people on this email chain, and people keep replying to all to tell everyone else to stop replying to all. It's like lord of the flies. People are trying to be funny, others are chewing each other out. There are clearly old people who aren't sure how email works who are still replying all to the original email. And there are threats of discipline to some of the people who are responding (but the manager of that person is replying to all to tell them that?) Chaos... sheer chaos... I created a folder to track how many replies this string has. There's 60 at the moment.

I hate the Reply to All function. It should just be removed.

You probably the first one to reply all, weren't you?

No, it was a lawyer, of course.

Is this thread about Pokemon or BigFan.

People are getting heated now. Some guy just wrote a diatribe about how this has been an interesting observation of human behavior and how we are a flawed species. Bring out the big guns!

People are getting heated now. Some guy just wrote a diatribe about how this has been an interesting observation of human behavior and how we are a flawed species. Bring out the big guns!

I'm not on the email chain, regardless, this gentleman is on to something. I've often thought that a 4 Way Stop was the true look into human failure....maybe it's really this email chain.

I think all email chains are a true look into human failure. 4-way stops are up there too.

I think all email chains are a true look into human failure. 4-way stops are up there too.

This is amazing. It's getting worse. There are now corporate communications going out requesting not to reply to the email chain as it is slowing down the email servers. This is like a denial of service attack.

How many replies is the email at now?

Hundreds and hundreds. I came back from lunch to 182 unread emails, 10 or so of which were legitimate. This is insane. There are literally thousands of people on the email chain. Do you know if there's some way to prevent against this sort of thing?

Surely someone in IT could just delete these emails from everyone's inbox, and clean up the problem.