I was working at a large company, and an external party that pretty much everyone in the industry was working with, sent out a regular blast email to all its users about the industry. Unfortunately, they CC’d everyone. What ensued was an infinite loop of out-of-office replies being sent to everyone. I came back from lunch and I had over 500 emails in my inbox, and they kept coming. IT had to step in to put an end to it. Pretty funny to watch in real time.
I think we auto block emails with more than 50 recipients. The only exception I think is the union who are allowed to email as many people as they like since they complained.
That’s funny because that happened to me not long ago. Sitting at my desk and bing but I’m doing something else so I ignore it but a few minutes later it’s ringing so much you’d think I had suddenly become a celebrity.
Someone opened some sort of help ticket but managed to email tens of thousands of employees. And there were >300 emails within just a few minutes, all saying something along the lines of “unsubscribe me from this list”. People are so dumb.
Then there was some sort of status update 15 mins or so later that started the whole thing again.
I was working for an international company that was very modular.
At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.
The event update was in English.
The mail system was down for about an hour.
After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”
Reply all. Take me off this email chain.
Reply all: Unsubscribe
I was working at a large company, and an external party that pretty much everyone in the industry was working with, sent out a regular blast email to all its users about the industry. Unfortunately, they CC’d everyone. What ensued was an infinite loop of out-of-office replies being sent to everyone. I came back from lunch and I had over 500 emails in my inbox, and they kept coming. IT had to step in to put an end to it. Pretty funny to watch in real time.
I think we auto block emails with more than 50 recipients. The only exception I think is the union who are allowed to email as many people as they like since they complained.
That’s funny because that happened to me not long ago. Sitting at my desk and bing but I’m doing something else so I ignore it but a few minutes later it’s ringing so much you’d think I had suddenly become a celebrity.
Someone opened some sort of help ticket but managed to email tens of thousands of employees. And there were >300 emails within just a few minutes, all saying something along the lines of “unsubscribe me from this list”. People are so dumb.
Then there was some sort of status update 15 mins or so later that started the whole thing again.
I was working for an international company that was very modular.
At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.
The event update was in English.
The mail system was down for about an hour.
After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”
The power of BCC (always use BCC for mass mails).
If the distribution list is set up properly that won’t work unfortunately.
You have been arrested by the FBI for “DDOS”
Me too!