Worst greenlight ever.

How did they get the guy from SuperJail to illustrate the article?

BalugaJoe: Worst greenlight ever.

Yep.

1 - Deafening E-Mail - Uh, I delete these. Bye.
2 - The Pentagon's Secret BFF - A typo in an address? I've made worse typos.
3 - Politicians Say the Darndest Racist Things - Welcome to the Tea Party.
4 - Substance Abuse - That's the headline a jizz joke gets? Weak sauce.
5 - Flawed Accounting - What.. What did any of that have to do with accounting?
6 - Ham Fight! - What does Five Guys have to do with who makes more? What, they can afford to go there? Big whoop.
7 - Revenge of the Cheated - She also alleged that he has "an extremely small penis that couldn't excite a woman's nostril let alone anything else." DON'T JUDGE ME FROM MY NOSTRILS, YOU WHORE!!!!

My best ever reply all email was a complaint that the message sender needed to use BCC.

Of course, I got dropped from the email list. The lawsuit might not have helped.

In the ten years I've been on Fark, I have *never* seen a worse greenlight. I suspect we are being t0rlled.

Oh, good, NoScript stopped this for a reason.

Usually I actually don't mind slideshows, but that was the most awkward one ever.

My favorite was when I was working in an attic in West Virginia and a guy sent out an email asking if anyone around our home office (on the west coast) knew of a baby sitter since his just went to college or something. He screwed up and sent it to everyone in the company coast to coast. Not a huge deal, others had made the same mistake. What was great was 5 minutes later a reply from one of his friends "I don't know about the kids but I'll babysit your wife any day of the week." Also sent to everybody with an email account in the company, and about a dozen different vendors. The follow up apology email came out first thing next morning.

i was hoping to find actual bad/funny Reply-All messages. Not this lame crap.

I think it's time to shoot the greenlighters... or at least come up with some standards for greenlighting articles... like:

- did they read the link
- were they entertained by it
- would they send it to someone else

if the answer to all of those is yes, then put it on fark

#8 Politicians Say the Darndest Racist Things.... what the fark are them things? pustules? eww

Woo an article that I can't view on mobile. Thanks for the single paragraph subby, you rock

That was a particularly bad slideshow. Not only did the entire page need to laboriously reload for every slide, it was painfully unfunny. I will gladly join the mob howling for someone's head.

davidphogan: BalugaJoe: Worst greenlight ever.

Yep.

1 - Deafening E-Mail - Uh, I delete these. Bye.
2 - The Pentagon's Secret BFF - A typo in an address? I've made worse typos.
3 - Politicians Say the Darndest Racist Things - Welcome to the Tea Party.
4 - Substance Abuse - That's the headline a jizz joke gets? Weak sauce.
5 - Flawed Accounting - What.. What did any of that have to do with accounting?
6 - Ham Fight! - What does Five Guys have to do with who makes more? What, they can afford to go there? Big whoop.
7 - Revenge of the Cheated - She also alleged that he has "an extremely small penis that couldn't excite a woman's nostril let alone anything else." DON'T JUDGE ME FROM MY NOSTRILS, YOU WHORE!!!!

Sometimes the problem is a small penis, sometimes the problem is a huge vagina. NO ONE likes a huge vagina.

My brother works for Hilton. This one time, about a year ago, someone hit REPLY ALL and accidentally sent an email to the entire company, crashing the servers.

LGeezer: In the ten years I've been on Fark, I have *never* seen a worse greenlight. I suspect we are being t0rlled.

You apparently don't visit the politics section of Fark. It's filled with shiatty greenlit stuff all day everyday

1nsanilicious: LGeezer: In the ten years I've been on Fark, I have *never* seen a worse greenlight. I suspect we are being t0rlled.

You apparently don't visit the politics section of Fark. It's filled with shiatty greenlit stuff all day everyday

No sane person goes to the politics tab.

I use to work for cox communication, in the GA help desk. One day we got a message from the west coast that they were having issues with something, of course, it wasn't ment to go to our distro list. It seems that it went company wide. One of the guys I worked with sent a reply-all saying he didn't need to be on their list and remove him, next thing we get was a response from some guy in the NE saying the same thing and that started a fking reply-all shiat storm. Went on for 2 + hours, with every 4th email being, stop hitting reply all. I just shut down outlook and tried not to laugh at them all.

/csb
//probably not

Are people this stupid. Also does everyone send a lot of mass emails to many recipients that cause this sorta problem

Kid Mojo: My brother works for Hilton. This one time, about a year ago, someone hit REPLY ALL and accidentally sent an email to the entire company, crashing the servers.

CSS, i used to date a guy back in 97 who worked for MS. He came home from work early one day because, earlier that afternoon, someone had created a new email alias including everyone in the company, to which everyone promptly replied asking why they were on it, and after a few minutes of replying to the alias, MS's email servers were brought down. They made T-shirts about it.

Had it been a "reply all" issue and not an alias issue, THAT would be worthy of this list. Hell, even as an alias issue it's a contender.

/we broke up later that year
//i wonder sometimes what happened to him
///oh well, time to start the day

What a farking awful link. Who greened this thing? Worse than the drunken Drew approvals the other day.

One day, a smoking hot major transferred onto base as the new weather officer, whose duties included sending out mass emails to everyone one base warning of dust storms, flooding rains, etc. Well, one Jonathan Rogers sent a reply all back to one of these asking if she wanted to hook up, he's got a few beers (on a dry base), some porn (also not allowed), etc. Well, next thing you know, Johnathan Rogers is standing tall before the Sgt. Major and the Colonel being asked why the fark is he such an idiot. He stands there for about ten minutes getting yelled out until they ran out of breath, at which point he can finally say he didn't send that email. Turns out, there were two Jonathan Rogers on base and he was unlucky enough to be the one they knew by sight.

Revenge of the Cheated

Tracey Evans, believing her PR manager husband cheated on her in 2000, got into his e-mail account. She sent a scathing e-mail to 50 of his business contacts, including executives at Volkswagen, informing them that he was a "despicable, deceitful, dodgy, D-CKHEAD who doesn't reserve this attitude just for his wife." She also alleged that he has "an extremely small penis that couldn't excite a woman's nostril let alone anything else."



Technically, this is not a "reply all" story. I am sure she just sent out the email to the business contacts on purpose.

AdolfClamwacker: My favorite was when I was working in an attic in West Virginia.

So I was working for a company whose name begins with Con and ends with vergys. We were in training and the instructor was out of the room, so we started using net send on the training pcs. I decided to one up everyone and I typed net send * moo thinking it would go to everyone in the workgroup (which I assumed was 'prolly at worst the building and likely the room) Not so. My computer ground to a halt for about ten seconds and then everyone in the room got a popup on the screen that said "moo" About ten minutes later a really irate and harassed looking IT guy came in, went to the PC beside mine, checked its name, went to the one on the other side, checked it, then barked "WHO SITS HERE?" I replied I did and he said "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" It turned out I mooed about 30,000 computers across several continents... To this day some people still call me Moo, and I occasionally run across people who were there for "the moo incident".

/csb

I work for the Army Corps of Engineers and awhile ago some one sent out an email regarding updating the District BQPs or some such managerial nonsense, except they didn't just copy the district management staff distribution list, they sent it out to THE ENTIRE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (20,000+ civillian and millitary personnel). Within about 30 seconds some one had hit 'reply all' to say "I think you sent this to the wrong list" and then every ten seconds came another "I want to get off this distriubtion list", and then of course people sending out "STOP HITTING REPLY ALL!" messages to everyone.

The best one was some women shot out 'Keep this up, I've got my Blackberry on vibrate and I'm loving it'. Some one sent out a 'I don't know what a BQP is so I'm really getting a kick...' so we swapped Fark IDs.

We were getting about a message a minute. It was crazy, and sort of funny and sad in that we're supposed to represent the best scientist and engineers representing the millitary and civil works.

Anyway, the next day we got a couple emails from Officers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan going off on how the irresponsible use of email had crashed all the email and internet services at multipe FOBs and how in the future people really need to think about how their simple actions could hamper war fighting efforts and put real lives in danger.

But, yeah, it was a crazy 24 hours and it seems like it comes close to happening about once a year.

One day IT folks will get wise to blocking who all can Reply-All.

As someone currently working on a new email client, I'm getting a kick out of these reply-alls.

i_got_no_strings: That was a particularly bad slideshow. Not only did the entire page need to laboriously reload for every slide, it was painfully unfunny. I will gladly join the mob howling for someone's head.

You run for the torches. I'll get the pitchforks. Meet me back here.

The accidental reply-alls are funny, but it was the involuntary ones that used to get a real chuckle out of me. One of my previous employers had an incredibly inept IT staff, AND they were super cheap. So not only would stuff get through the email system that shouldn't get through, they were too check to pay for equipment/software/people able to prevent it.

One day, I got this email from a co-worker. The title said "Check it out- Anna Kournikova did a nude photo shoot!" and had a bunch of (supposed) jpegs with names like "AKNaked1.jpg .exe" and "AnnaKournikovaGQPhotoSessionOutTakes.jpg .exe" You know, stuff any third grader knows not to click on. The TO: list was pretty much everyone in the company plus a bunch of folks that looked like they were clients, friends and family of one of our salesmen. Apparently, the .exe's were viruses that read your contacts list and emails you had sent/received and then sent a copy of itself to every email address it found.

Pretty soon, my email in-box was flooded with the same email except from different people. Even AFTER the exchange server was brought to its knees by all the spamming, people STILL kept clicking on the "pictures" of Anna Kournikova. And it wasn't just horndog men either. A lot of those emails came from female employees. NTTAWWT. I teased one of the ladies about it, and she said she was just checking them out "for her husband." Right. You stick with that story, Babe.

The best part is that a few weeks after they finally cleaned up the mess, my in-box got an identical email in it. And then slowly but surely it spread through the company. I guess people just thought "maybe this time it IS real."

i_got_no_strings: That was a particularly bad slideshow. Not only did the entire page need to laboriously reload for every slide, it was painfully unfunny. I will gladly join the mob howling for someone's head.

This. Fark you subby.

Vicki Walker, a financial controller with ProCare Health in Auckland, New Zealand, was fired after two years with the company for, according to ProCare, creating "disharmony in the workplace by using block capitals, bold typeface, and red text in her e-mails."

I hope this happens more often.

Jormungandr: So I was working for a company whose name begins with Con and ends with vergys. We were in training and the instructor was out of the room, so we started using net send on the training pcs. I decided to one up everyone and I typed net send * moo thinking it would go to everyone in the workgroup (which I assumed was 'prolly at worst the building and likely the room) Not so. My computer ground to a halt for about ten seconds and then everyone in the room got a popup on the screen that said "moo" About ten minutes later a really irate and harassed looking IT guy came in, went to the PC beside mine, checked its name, went to the one on the other side, checked it, then barked "WHO SITS HERE?" I replied I did and he said "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" It turned out I mooed about 30,000 computers across several continents... To this day some people still call me Moo, and I occasionally run across people who were there for "the moo incident".

/csb

Thats funny and the IT guy was probably just pissed you pointed out an issue he was supposed to fix.

Jormungandr: So I was working for a company whose name begins with Con and ends with vergys. We were in training and the instructor was out of the room, so we started using net send on the training pcs. I decided to one up everyone and I typed net send * moo thinking it would go to everyone in the workgroup (which I assumed was 'prolly at worst the building and likely the room) Not so. My computer ground to a halt for about ten seconds and then everyone in the room got a popup on the screen that said "moo" About ten minutes later a really irate and harassed looking IT guy came in, went to the PC beside mine, checked its name, went to the one on the other side, checked it, then barked "WHO SITS HERE?" I replied I did and he said "NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" It turned out I mooed about 30,000 computers across several continents... To this day some people still call me Moo, and I occasionally run across people who were there for "the moo incident".

/csb

told this story to my SO, he went white as soon as he hear "net send *"

lulz were had

What an odd article

I wwebsite as on the internet the whole frickin beefalo!

Bacontastesgood: I wwebsite as on the internet the whole frickin beefalo!

/\ This almost makes more sense than the article. 2 of the 8 (!!) aren't even Reply All situations. If by 'great' they mean 'half-arsed', then yes, great.