#replyallcalypse

[Stalwart]

#replyallcalypse: What happens when you ‘reply all’ to 39,979 people

They’re calling it “the day NYU broke.”
Tuesday evening, 39,979 students received an email message from NYU’s Bursar’s Office suggesting they switch to paperless tax forms. The entire email list soon realized they could hit reply all -- and send an email message to the entire student body.

Mayhem ensued.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/28/replyallcalypse-what-happens-when-reply-all-to-37-people/#ixzz2DbBx8CFT

I love one student's response:  “Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?”

[CAP1]

hehehehe...that sounds like a good idea to start doing to those few spams that don't land in the spam folder......

[icepac]

My buddy accidently stumbled upon an "exchange server bomb" when he went on vacation.

He was trying to forward his e.mail to one he could access from home and somehow clicked "all".

He also had a default setting of "return receipt requested" on his e.mails.

Once incoming e.mails came in, they were all forwarded to "all".

It quickly snowballed from there.

I used it a few years later myself.

[Dragon]

We had a customer last year send a request for our holiday schedules (what days we would be closed or 1/2 days etc.) and there were 75+ of the original 200 or so email recipients that answered with a reply-all. 

Naturally, some got upset and started reply-alling for the reply-alling to stop.  LOL, it was fun as hell to watch for 3 days as these idiots just kept doing it over and over.