by Discombobulator » Dec 15th, '11, 14:31
I work for a very large multinational.
We occasionally have a 'mailbomb' where someone innocently sends a reply to an email not realising that the distribution list is about 100,000 co-workers.
someone else then replies [to everyone] saying "this is not for me, please remove my name from your distribution list"
and someone else puts "please remove me too"
Suddenly we get a junior manager, replying to everyone saying "please do not reply to everyone"
then we get more and more senior managers demonstrating their lack of understanding and flexing their egos by replying and saying "really, you must not reply to everyone"
anyone who does reply to everyone wishes they did not because they get their inbox filled with many "out of office" autoreplies
and so the whole thing snowballs.
Moral: do not 'reply to all' when you receive a email addressed to lots of people or to a large distribution group.
Beardy - you can set an autofilter on most email systems to intercept emails from a specific sender or a specific subject, and have them go to your email wastebin.
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