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State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm

Posted by timothy on from the forward-this-story-to-all-your-friends-in-triplicate dept.

twistah writes "It seems that a recent 'reply-all storm' at the State Department caused the entire e-mail infrastructure to crash. A notice sent to all State Department employees warned of disciplinary actions which will be taken if users 'reply-all' to lists with a large amount of users. Apparently, the problem was compounded by not only angry replies asking to be taken off the errant list, but by the e-mail recall function, which generated further e-mail traffic. One has to wonder if capacity planning was performed correctly — should an e-mail system be able to handle this type of traffic, or is it an unreasonable task for even the best system?"

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  1. Re:Bedlam... by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    huh?

    you are quoting a sex-change team for email issues?

    is this a san francisco based server, by any chance??

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  2. Re:Exchange, huh? by thethibs · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If your normal business communications are anything like this rambling, unfocused, hard-to-read, post of yours, I can understand why the CEO and COO didn't get the message.

    I shudder to even think of what your code commenting looks like. Do we get to find out what you had for lunch on the day you wrote a particular bit of code?

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