No, really.
I got an internal e-mail a few minutes ago that obviously was in error. Looked like someone was trying to do a test of how to send a message to the whole building, and it messed up. Subject? "Hopefully this is a city-wide distribution" Only message? "Hope this works for you."
Now, the recipient wasn't intended to be me, so I just deleted it. No use replying, in that it's not to me, and was an obvious error.
Which never seemed to occur to some people. Started getting strings of snotty replies, which obviously meant the stupid people were hitting "reply to all."
After a few minutes of this, the MIS guy just sent his own building-wide message:
Once again, someone has sent a message to everyone that should not have been sent. Now people are responding to it using “REPLY TO ALL”. As we said the last time this happened:
STOP RESPONDING TO THIS MESSAGE! PARTICULARLY, STOP USING “REPLY TO ALL” TO RESPOND TO A MASS MAILING!
All the responders are doing is propagating this essentially empty e-mail.
Thanks for your consideration.
UPDATE: Two hours after the MIS guy sent his plea to every single e-mail address in the building, everyone on the distribution list got this message from one very particularly stupid person:
"Whaaaaat is it????? An empty email. Please resend."
Idiot.
Yours may deserve sympathy; mine do not. I've been back & forth all day between vendor & server guys about a problem with my server, each one insisting it's up to the other guy to fix.
Meantime I can't even see all the parts of the server, so I can't see what the problem is. Lovely.
Posted by: skinnydan at October 31, 2005 03:28 PMProbably just mice.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 31, 2005 03:34 PMAll time classic:
Luser 1: Why would Bob send me an e-mail that says "I Love You"?
Luser 2: Why would you open it? You're a guy!
Posted by: skillzy at October 31, 2005 05:14 PM