Recently at work a software application that gets used by lots of folks was down for an upgrade, and the application owners sent out an email to all users letting them know that the app was back up. Unfortunately, a couple of induhviduals used the "Reply All" function to ask about problems they were having after the upgrade.
Pretty soon there were dozens of people "replying to all" asking to be taken off "this list," others asking people to stop "replying to all," etc., etc. In the last day I've now received nearly 100 emails broadcast to everyone. I didn't realize people are still that clueless about email etiquette, especially at a major technology firm. If I were a dictator I'd simply fire every person who replied to all, but alas my dictator's hat is out at the cleaners.
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