The NHS's 1.2 Million Employees Are Trapped in a 'Reply-All' Email Thread (businessinsider.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Business Insider report:The NHS's 1.2 million employees are currently trapped in a "reply-all" email hell. A "test" email was accidentally sent to everyone who works at the UK health service - prompting a series of reply-all responses from annoyed recipients going out to all 1-million-plus employees of the organisations. An NHS employee told Business Insider that there have been at least 120 replies so far -- meaning that more than 140 million needless emails have been sent across the NHS's network today. As a result, they said, its email systems are running "very slow today." The NHS Pensions department is currently warning people on Twitter that "if contacting us by email please be aware that there may be delays in responding due to an issue currently affecting all NHS mail."

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I survived

[Anonymous Coward]

I survived Bedlam DL3

The story of when Microsoft themselves fell victim to the same issue, and how it was resolved.

Re:Good ol' fun

[Archangel Michael]

Emailing a group like that should have been limited to a very small number of people. Everyone else should have got a message that they were not authorized to use that email message.

This is email server admin 101 level knowledge.