Reply to ALL
Colleague1:stop replying to all
Colleague 2: don’t reply on all
Colleagues 3 to 100: hey stop spamming
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The place I work in, reply all is the standard, and you pick your recipients diligently.
It’s really annoying when you cc people and then the person only responds to you, and you have to forward it to everyone else cc’d.
Luckily it’s only external people who don’t reply all.
why me again
Your the scape goat sorry
Hey can’t you read? It says DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL
I’m old enough to have experienced an Exchange server being brought to it’s knees due to two out of office replies fighting back and forth with each other.
I suppose that’s why out of office only replies to each sender once now. I recall that exchange used to send ooo replies every time, and that must have been in '99 or the early 2000s. I wonder if there was some other fix for the problem, I never saw evidence of that problem even then
This was the early to mid 2000s. I honestly don’t remember the specifics. But I do remember the emails coming from somewhere in Eastern Europe, so it may have been some crap system on their end that treated each reply as a unique conversation. Which could be why our Exchange server kept replying.
Fun fact: when you reply to a noreply email address, your email is rerouted to the No Reply Email Center (NREC) in New York, where it’s printed out and shredded to make confetti. Every year, Macy’s buys the vast majority of this confetti to use in their Thanksgiving parade. If everyone stopped doing that, they’d run out of confetti.
I’m so glad all those emails don’t go to waste
True story: I responded (unpleasantly and verbosely) to one of those automated no-reply messages from Reddit, regarding a 3-day suspension for violating some rule (aka, pissing off a mod)… and I did get a reply. Account banned.
That happened to me when I asked why it was okay to joke about murdering billionaires (and gave them examples that had been up for days with no consequences) but I get suspended for joking about murdering child molesters. If you’re going to pick and choose who you care about why would child molesters make the cut over pretty much any other demo?
