FARK.com: (1729445) According to this riveting journalistic expose, abuse of the "Reply to All" e-mail feature is a bad thing. You submitted this story to everybody in your company

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ThatDevGuy		2005-10-25 06:40:12 PM

I was sending out mass emails to people at work one time. I got the following reply:

There is an EVIL button. It is labelled REPLY TO ALL. There is a good button. It is labelled REPLY!

BoneStorm		2005-10-25 06:54:18 PM

Learning to read the word "ALL" would solve that problem. Right? What am I missing here?

EL_FABREZ		2005-10-25 07:29:55 PM

Must be Ric Romero with another breakthrough story again. I can just see his Pulitzer.

AnthraxRipple		2005-10-25 07:34:55 PM

The only time I've actually used it was for my mother-in-law's FWD:Fwd:FWD: emails recipients. One of them picked up a virus and it sent itself to everyone else. I gave them a little FYI on email-borne viruses. I finally had to ask her to take me off her list.

Our married couples group is on a yahoo groups list. My wife sent out a test email, I didn't realize the reply-to was the list. I sent a Simpsons reference: "I know you can read my emails boy.... meow meow meow[....]" I was a little chagrined. At least I didn't say anything about her wearing f***-me pumps.

RocketRod		2005-10-25 07:47:48 PM

This just in... people can now send "electronic mail" through a machine that's called a "computer".

Sussman		2005-10-25 08:50:43 PM

E-mail is a new way to forward lists
of jokes to your friends and family members.

If you don't have an e-mail address,
you can sign up for a free one at a
site called Hotmail.com.

Megain		2005-10-25 08:51:39 PM

RocketRod:

this just in... idiots can now post cliches on things called websites. they can even center them in a vain attempt to look cool

Megain		2005-10-25 08:56:10 PM

~sigh~

kids these days

RocketRod		2005-10-25 09:13:50 PM

Megain: this just in... idiots can now post cliches on things called websites. they can even center them in a vain attempt to look cool

Chill, bro... I'm an L.A. native... Ric's one of my local news homeboys... so, step off. I can claim him in my set.

/now posting vainly in color!
//call me when the Elmer Dills postings get to be too much, okay?

Megain		2005-10-25 09:49:44 PM

RocketRod: I can claim him in my set.
this sounds like a gay thing to me
you can have him

TommyymmoT		2005-10-25 10:20:51 PM

I did not send that story to everybody in the company.

I did however, thank 400 people for an unforgettable evening, and advise they see their doctor to be tested for syphilis.

CheddarPants		2005-10-25 11:17:48 PM

If you use Thunderbird, you don't even have to have a "Reply to All" button in the toolbar if you don't want one.

Resin33		2005-10-25 11:21:32 PM

Megain: this just in... idiots can now post cliches on things called websites. they can even center them in a vain attempt to look cool

I noticed that instuctions for centering them like that were posted in a recent thread.

On topic, I get reply-all mishaps all the time. They are often funny. I'm also on the email list of an inter-company hockey league at the Canadian office. They won't take me off their list!

MadAfro		2005-10-25 11:21:42 PM

Hey, RocketRod or Sussman, can somebody kindly explain the newsguy cliche? I missed that one. Kthxbye.

TubamanRH		2005-10-25 11:21:46 PM

Silly me to think I even had a shot of beating anyone to the punch with use of the Ric cliche.

mr.awesome		2005-10-25 11:23:11 PM

I read this in the Journal today as I was eating my sandwhich during lunch. I was perplexed at how people don't understand what the word "ALL" means.

john_frink		2005-10-25 11:23:20 PM

this just in... idiots can now post cliches on things called websites. they can even center them in a vain attempt to look cool

I work for idiots.

So I am really getting a kick out of these replies.

mistergecko		2005-10-25 11:24:04 PM

"I felt very badly for the woman," says Starkman, still shaken. "I can't imagine anything more humiliating."

Holy fecal sample, someone doesn't have much of an imagination.

RockIsDead		2005-10-25 11:24:20 PM

"Flaming" on the internet is when someone
posts an angry reply to another poster.
Normally there is no actual fire involved
and poses no real danger to bystanders.

Donald Hogan Mark II		2005-10-25 11:24:47 PM

somebody post the dilbert strip where he reply-alls the 'don't hit reply all' email.

laivincolmo		2005-10-25 11:25:18 PM

john_frink		2005-10-25 11:25:24 PM

Hey, RocketRod or Sussman, can somebody kindly explain the newsguy cliche? I missed that one. Kthxbye.

Read the Ric Romero thread. It is a classic.

Immaculate_Misconception		2005-10-25 11:26:53 PM

Ric Romero is getting tired folks.

diddle		2005-10-25 11:27:18 PM

Ohh...I thought it said Reply to Al. I have a friend named Al.

takamine_master		2005-10-25 11:27:19 PM

This threads has Ric Romero written all over it.

Timon of Athens		2005-10-25 11:27:53 PM

What's worse? When someone does it, you tell them to quit doing it, and they send you a snarky reply that you can just disregard any e-mail that doesn't apply to you.

Grandemadaca		2005-10-25 11:28:29 PM

Reply All, as well as Reply To that's set to reply to a mail list is good for a laugh every couple of months. I've seen the usual; biatchin' about other employees and steamy romance emails.

MadAfro		2005-10-25 11:29:21 PM

Thanks for the enlightenment, john_frink.

skinink		2005-10-25 11:29:35 PM

"It might have come in handy with a blunder that, although it happened years ago, still stings colleagues Jackie Condie and Eric Starkman. It started when the receptionist at their former company composed an email to her doctor, grisly in its detail, that spoke at length of some gastrointestinal discomfort..."

This is nothing. Recently, I had to call my doctor to discuss a problem. Went into an empty conference room, called him on my cellphone, and went into a 5 minute discussion about my issues.

When there was a break in the conversation. all of a sudden, a voice comes over the conference call system in the room, saying the recording of the conference call has been extended. Didn't realize there had been a conference call earlier, and all calls at my company are recorded (and no one at my company had ended their connection) !

LUCKILY, the phone in the room had been muted, so I'm sure I wasn't recorded. At the time, though I crapped my pants, fearing a recording of me would wind up on Fark.

So, beware of empty conference rooms as well ...

cgrabe		2005-10-25 11:29:57 PM

I would even go so far as to say abuse of anything is a bad thing.

I use reply-all frequently enough at work. It has its uses, but some people do overdo it.

tharealmegaman		2005-10-25 11:30:20 PM

Hey, Megain:

Its not looking cool on a website,
its Fark.com.

mediaphile		2005-10-25 11:31:23 PM

everyone biatches and moans about cliches, then chastises teh n00bs for not knowing them. i guess that's a fark cliche in itself.

as far as the article, i don't think i've ever touched the 'reply to all' button. in fact, in an effort to save space on my outlook toolbar, i removed it. guess i won't have to explain to everyone at the office i don't work at about my sister's gonorrhoea of the throat.

/jk i don't have a sister either

Sexy Randall the Pharoh Wizard		2005-10-25 11:32:22 PM

You all think you know what you're talking about, but you don't. I do. I work for Email.

It's so funny to listen to all of you talk about things you have no idea about. Well, I do, and I know you're all stupid.

Just don't believe everything you read.

//my company greyed out Reply to All

Hevach		2005-10-25 11:32:53 PM

Just regular reply can be dangerous if you're not careful. About a year ago, there was a girl at my university who replied directly to a list-distributed mass mail regarding a dinner event with some speaker or something. Emails sent through the list.digest address have the sender's email in the From: line, but hte Replyto header goes back to list.digest (which at the time had no authentication).

She knew the guy who'd sent the mass mail out, and replied with a joke. "What's for dinner? Chicken or *CHICKEN* };)"

The reply went to every single email address in the entire domain and all subdomains. She was getting so many replies that she couldn't even log into the mail server and it was bogging down the spam filter, so ITS was forced to delete her account and give her a new username.

TheDirtyNacho		2005-10-25 11:34:12 PM

Fark is full of those kids who repeated the joke the cool kid told once, over and over again - because if it worked for him, it must work just as well a dozen times later right?

Yeah, you're that guy.

Sexy Randall the Pharoh Wizard		2005-10-25 11:35:15 PM

Hevach: "What's for dinner? Chicken or *CHICKEN* };)"

She must be a total riot.

//good one Chet

mindbomb33		2005-10-25 11:36:08 PM

This just in, using a computer you can access the information superhiighway. There are no cars there, but the information superhighway is so fast, that a cliche can grow and die in merely minutes! I'm Ric Romero with the most up-to-date 20th century news.

Hevach		2005-10-25 11:39:56 PM

She must be a total riot.

Not really. Has a bit of a reputation, but she's not the sharpest bulb on the tree. Her more recent exploits include writting a column for the M-Times detailing 25 places on campus where you can have sex without being visible on the security cameras, causing 25 new security cameras to be ordered by public safety.

First rule of rule breaking: Only share the secrets of rulebeaking with those complicit in the rule breaking. That way, they can't rat you out without also taking the fall.

Walker		2005-10-25 11:40:36 PM

Oh do we have nightmares with idiots using "reply to all" at my work. The company will send out an email to everyone in the company (over 3000 people) and one guy will reply to all asking a personal question just to the sender. Some complicated thing like "I started in 1989. Now if I put $2000 in my 401K in 1989 but took out $500 in 1993 how much do I have now with interest?" Then some idiot will get mad so they will reply to all telling the first idiot "You don't need to reply all!". Then a third idiot will reply to all saying "Why am I getting this?". Then a fourth idiot will reply to all telling the third idiot why they are getting the email. Then you get the people coming in late who are now just replying to the first idiot, they reply to all telling the first idiot not to reply to all. This goes on all day. I end up with half the hair I had when I came to work.

TheWhiteDragon		2005-10-25 11:41:33 PM

I remember this one guy was leaving our company, and the day he left he sent out an email exhorting the virtues of Christ and how all nay Sayers should convert. Then people were hitting "reply all" with either "That was refreshing, we need more thoughts like that!" or "Dude, back off. I don't come to your church and start screaming about overdue work." Things to that effect. Found it funny.
Was an interesting day in my inbox that day!

chenry		2005-10-25 11:45:18 PM

one time i hit "reply" instead of "forward" and called one of my client's an idiot.

wingnut396		2005-10-25 11:45:43 PM

I hear some people even sent out stupid request to 'everyone' groups as well. We really need get rid of this really simply named stuff that a small percentage of stupid users cannot seem to grasp. Next thing you know, they will want us to remember our passwords!!!@!!!

iagomonk		2005-10-25 11:45:45 PM

CheddarPants:
If you use Thunderbird, you don't even have to have a "Reply to All" button

If you're drinking Thunderbird, Reply All is the least of your problems.

antiseptic fresh clean		2005-10-25 11:46:01 PM

Anybody who's doing Reply All must be the same person who puts on the stereo so loud and thinks everybody in the galaxy has the same taste of music.

Phil McKraken		2005-10-25 11:46:34 PM

Our married couples group is on a yahoo groups list.

Are you swingers? Just askin'.

Phil McKraken		2005-10-25 11:47:17 PM

If you're drinking Thunderbird, Reply All is the least of your problems.

LOL post of the day.

Kali76		2005-10-25 11:49:13 PM

I'm Ric Romero.
Anyone who thinks I'm a tired cliche can kiss my plaid, bell bottom pants covered ass.
I will never die.

locater16		2005-10-25 11:51:39 PM

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aerojockey		2005-10-25 11:54:06 PM

Ha, I don't use Outlook, so I don't have a Reply to All key.

SUCKS TO BE YOU.

Koil		2005-10-26 12:00:07 AM

Megain: this just in... idiots can now post cliches on things called websites. they can even center them in a vain attempt to look cool

And what of the other bazillion cliche's that are thrown around here everyday. I remember not too long ago, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a "It's a trap" post...

Chill out and take your meds, you'll be okay in the morning

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