Remember mailstorms? When someone would accidentally email a distribution list of thousands of strangers, each of whom replied-all Please take me off this thread/Me too/Me too? Inboxes overflowed! Mail servers crashed! Mailstorms were common at Microsoft and other corporations in the 90s, but I hadn't seen one in a while. I'd like to think this is because people learned, but it was probably because IT groups devised a filter.
Now I'm experiencing a throwback, an honest-to-goodness, old-timey mailstorm. So nope, people aren't any smarter. The jokes are better, though. My two favorite reply-alls follow.
Someone graphed the correlation between employee newness (high employee number) and replies.
And then this. I almost proposed on the spot.
-----Original Message-----
From: [redacted]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 6:54 AM
To: [redacted](mailer list)
Subject: How to unsubscribeHi everyone,
Here's how to unsubscribe from this mailing list.
1. Go to http://hr.redacted.com/
2. Select 'My Job Info'
3. Select 'All other tasks'
4. Select 'Employee Services'
5. Select 'Resignation Confirmation.
6. Fill in and submit the form. Be sure to include the phrase 'Too stupid to live' in the comments section.Thanks everyone, I hope this helps.
[redacted]
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