Gotta love the "email everyone so I look important" idiots.

//we have them here as well

It's almost as if Exchange is a complete piece of shiat and can't manage to keep a single copy of these messages with an index to it for each user.

Also, hitting REPLY-ALL on any message with more than 25 recipients should trigger an ARE YOU REALLY FARKING SURE? message and make you type in a 128 byte hex confirmation code.

BWAHAHAHAH

I love it when that happens. Shenanigans go on for weeks sometimes.

Agh, I hate Reply Alls! Especially when it keeps going, then someone replies to all saying "Everyone stop replying to all!" then other people respond to her with "Yea everyone stop replying to all!" then others call them out for replying to all about not replying to all then others (like me) send e-mails saying "Karate Explosion!" and have their bosses get upset saying all I'm doing is exacerbating the problem.

CSB time:

In the early 2000's, I was working on a grad degree at UM-Flint. As part of the student email services, there was an address that would forward email sent it to every student email account. It was intended to be used so student groups could make announcements like "The drama club is putting on the Miracle Worker all next week" or "Stop by the math club bake sale tomorrow." Unfortunately, this address wasn't well designed. It wasn't moderated, but even worse is that any replies to the messages it sent out would also be sent out to everyone.

Well, some budding genius jumped the gun on Jonah Goldberg and realized that the word nazi was actually an acronym, and contained the word socialism. Not only did he decide that this was proof that liberals were the real nazis, but that he had to share this amazing insight with as many people as possible, so he sent has screed explaining the nazi-socialism link and final proof that Democrats are just like Hitler to this particular email address. Not once, but twice.

Suddenly, everyone became flooded with replies. There were a lot of "WTF?" and "Shut up, tard" replies, which got forwarded to everyone. There were sincere attempts to debate the genius replies, which got forwarded to everyone. And of course there were hundreds of "please stop sending me this" replies, which got forwarded to everyone. Naturally, others would reply to the stop-sending-me-this people, explaining that the address was unmonitored and their requests would do no good, so stop sending them and clogging everyones inboxes. And then others would reply that trying-to-explain-the-internet messages were also clogging the tubes, and knock it off. And then others would reply again to please stop sending this stuff.

As the number of messages increased exponentially, the conversation eventually devolved into SHUT UP - NO YOU SHUT UP - NO YOU SHUT UP. And everyone's email boxes were filled with tons of messages. Finally, someone in IT figured out what was going on and pulled the plug on the email reflector.

Though I know that the original genius was probably just stupid, there's part of me that hopes that it was an intentional troll, because it was to this day some of the best trolling I've ever seen.

/CSB out!

Missing from list: The "I don't think this was meant for me" idiots who then hit Reply All.

/Although I admit to doing this sometimes for the sheer amusement.

Mr. Shabooboo: You know who else brought the German Parliament to a halt?

Ooooo, burn!

LEO
I can't e-mail.

MARGARET
They're working on the problem.

LEO
What's the problem?

MARGARET
My friend, Lynette, from the President's Council on Physical Fitness, you remember her?

LEO
[irritated] No.

MARGARET
She's the one where you say, 'Who's that?' And I say, 'That's my friend, Lynette, from the President's Council on Physical Fitness.'

JOSH
Hey.

LEO
Oh, hey Josh.

MARGARET
Anyway, she sent me an e-mail about the actual calorie count in the raisin muffin they're serving in the mess. I forwarded the e-mail to several hundred assistants and secretaries in O.E.O.B. and in the West Wing, and that was fine. But Jolene Millman, who works in political liaison, then hit reply, which apparently-

LEO
Oh Margaret! Margaret! I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to...I hung in there as long as I could, but you long since passed the point when I stopped caring. If you're curious, it was right around raisin muffin.

This is a lot better than the "8 greatest moments in reply-all" article from the business tab. But then again, the comments on Fark for that article there were epic.