The CEO should just send a message that the next person that reply's all on the email chain is fired.

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Someone already did that, but it wasn't anyone important. Ironically, they will likely be fired.

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My inquiry was met with links that didn't work. I think people may have been messing with me. I think.

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We've had the crying Jordan meme now.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

We had this happen at my previous employer. We had all the same "stop replying to all!" messages, threats of firing, and jokesters, plus people who sent out UNSUBSCRIBE (I couldn't figure out if they were being funny or really thought they were on a mailing list). Finally halfway through the afternoon, central IT shut down the mail servers altogether. Aside from the denial of service issue, it was the only way to break the cycle that our employees were caught in. They turned it back on at the very end of the day, after everyone had settled down a bit, and we got an email from the top IT manager apologizing for the mess and saying they were going to talk about how they could prevent this in the future. I don't think anything came of that, except for the jokers getting pulled into their supervisors' offices to discuss how they contributed to the problem.

I just saw this... Is the reply all pandemic still in full swing?

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The best way to prevent this is to use email groups where only certain members of the group are allowed to send messages and anyone else who responds gets a bounce back message that they aren't allowed to respond.

The problem is that you get a senior executive who says "That is too complicated and I don't want to do all that crap" so then you get this and eventually the IT person gets blamed.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That's funny, turnto.

Yesterday afternoon, it got out of hand. After the corporate communication went out to stop replying, it only got worse. The system was at a crawl and legitimate emails weren't even getting through.

My boss was out yesterday, and at about 3:00, I got a call from her boss, who oversees about half the country and can be one of the angriest dudes I've ever dealt with. When I picked up, there was silence. All he said was "leash, tell everyone in your office that if they reply, they're fired." While we couldn't do that, I wasn't arguing. I let everyone know.

About a half hour later, the messages stopped. I imagine that was messaged to every office in the country.

That was a unique experience and very eye-opening.

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Most of our emails are that way. The massmailings only go one way and you can't reply. This was a mistake email sent by someone who is probably in some deep shit even though the ridiculous string that followed wasn't their fault.

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Find that person you hate and when they leave their computer unlocked start it up again with an email "round two?"

I might be able to give your IT department some advice. Can you PM your email address and password?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

They told me about people like you.

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In 2 different large corporate employers, I've seen this occur on average once a year....every time it's absolutely hilarious.

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In a similar vein, around the year 2000, I was asked to provide email capability to a programming language called Clipper. Clipper came out in 1985 to support a lot of the DBase programming, and needless to say, email wasn't even a thing back then. What I ended up doing was creating a Delphi application that would read a table and email from that, and the Clipper app would enter stuff into the table, and to the end user, it would look like they were emailing from Clipper (which didn't have mouse support -- at least our version of it.)

Anyway, I was off in an Oracle training class as we were preparing to migrate. A secretary came in the room and said "Is there a newper here?" I said yes, wondering what was going on. She said "I have a call for you -- can you take it on this phone?" I pick up the phone and it was my boss saying "There's something wrong with Norman Mailer" (that's what we named the Delphi app.) "It keeps sending the same email." I told him just turn off the PC that it was running on, and I'll take a look after the training... I get back to the office, and login -- I had been bcc'ing myself on the emails during this initial test phase to make sure things were working. I had about 8000 copies of the same email -- the app had a bug where it wasn't able to mark the email as sent, and was sending it out every 5 seconds. Thankfully, we moved onto a more modern Oracle based system shortly thereafter and we could kill off Norman Mailer.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

turn on conversation view. about the only reason that view is useful at all.

for me its text messages. i have no way to unsubscribe from those. my buddies mom will text 30 people about some funny picture she saw. what ensues is "lol"ish text after text. and it will go on for hours. majority of responses are just numbers. drives me insane.

there are guys who are looking for softball subs all the time, they also send out group texts and there is a barage of 100 nos. its infuriating.

someone i barely know had a baby. i am now on a string of group texts that includes 20 people.

fml.

“Ok, I don’t like to gear my material to the audience but I’d like to make an exception because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in San Francisco this week – I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight – so before I came out I worked-up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren’t plumbers probably won’t get this and won’t think it’s funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this…

“This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, “You can’t work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench.” Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, “The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.” Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, “It says sprocket not socket!”

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DND the conversation. You'll receive the texts, but your phone won't alert you at least.

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Just got 12 emails in the last 5 minutes on a company wide email.

Dis gon be good.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Dude, me too! I was just about to bump this thread. We are at 30 and counting...

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Tracia,
Thank you for putting the inovation rack product in the Marketing EE-Mail. However , would you please send out in righting what the product is. I can't make out what the product is . And I know other manager can't either. We' re either old or blind or we may own both of these traits.

Thank You for helping a Senior


This went out to at least 400 people.

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Some idiot accidentally sent one of these out yesterday. Its still going. We're getting near the 100 email mark with it. There are some good replies though;


Please do not hit reply all, this is going to hundreds of people.

Ok everybody, hopefully this will be the last email.... this happened previously.... it seems even when you just reply to one person it replies to all..... so basically stop responding and hopefully it'll go away.

Really, not funny, why is this still going? who can't stop hitting reply all??????????Please just stop

this is not about taking you off of this email. its about you not hitting reply all. if you wouldn't hit reply all, you would not get all of these ridiculous emails from everyone. so STOP hitting reply all, because no one else wants these either. THANK YOU and have a great day!

please remove me from your list what is this about

I definitely was confused ... lol

Please reply individually!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am also confused. I do not know what this is

I got it to!

I am confused, what is 48?

Today sucks, what the hell is this?

cant IT do something about this. fix it. this is terrible to get i have 32 emails

We can't unless you STOP REPLYING TO ALL (this was from the IT director )

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Great start to a Friday. I'm off today, but my phone started beeping every 5 seconds. Turns out we're off to the races again. Jesus, these people are stupid.

I don't think this was intended for me. Please remove me from the list.

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This idiot in my office called IT once saying "He lost his reply to all" it's been a running joke for years now.


Also, the Italian stereotype that works with us emailed the wrong Janet one time, so our compliance lady who has very little interaction with us and barely knew who he was got an email out of nowhere with a giant middle finger picture. Good times.

I work at a large insurance company with thousands of employees. We get one of these chains about every three months or so. The problem is there are so many sub-groups of a few hundred or a few thousand people that it can be different dumb asses every time.

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