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Best Reply-to-all email thread ever.

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Apr 21 '16, 09:04

It begins normal enough. Co-worker accidentally sends an email to the wrong distribution list which sends to 350 co-workers who have nothing to do with the email at all. A few follow-up emails pertaining to the email itself, then the "take me off this email list" chain starts.

Of course, they all reply to all wanting off the list. Once one person requests it, 41 others do the same.

The best is one employee requests that everyone stop sending replies-to-all, and instead just email the original sender to take them off the list. Then, the same employee replies-to-all to get removed from the list, too.

It has now devolved into two people believing they've fixed the problem by talking to our Exchange Admins, and arguing about it in reply-to-all. I can't stop laughing.

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you should reply-all to each of the reply-alls with instrucitons on how to not reply-all to reply-alls -- nm - decline Apr 21, 09:07 1
- For workplaces that are Outlook based, this is kind of fun - JD Apr 21, 09:26

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