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State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm
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?"
You know, firefox has a built in spell checker. That way your posts are automatically spell checked as you type.
What about when the Communists butchers invaded Afghanistan?
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That was a great story!
I've got this female friend from years ago who still chain mails me the latest version of "Febreeze Kills Pets!!1!" emails. I've asked her numerous times to stop to no avail. A few months ago, she sent me another one with a couple dozen other unfortunates in the "To:" list. I don't know most of the people on the list. I reviewed the contents and sure enough snopes has a write up on it debunking the contents of this email, too.
I'm a good civil servant so I hit 'reply all' explaining to everyone that the message was bogus. True to "Tuttle, OK, USA" form, one of the recipients asked me, rather snippily, "who are you and how did you get my email address???" She further went on to say I was harassing her upon receiving my single email from her.
My single reply was, "Freaky, huh? Say hi to Kathy."
A few days later I got an email from Kathy. She was a little distressed that I took the effort to debunk the contents of her email...embarrassing her in the process. She also informed me that the friend that sent it to her had years of nurse-training for an old-folks home and knew what she was talking about. She, a nurse, is the final authority on whether swiffer or febreeze is poisonous to animals. ((rolling eyes))
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I know that wasn't the nicest I could have been; but, you know what? I'm tired of coddling the ignorant masses that clog our "series of tubes." Even after others have taken the time to investigate the matter the muggles still point, drool and ignore all reason. Meh.
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