On: They told you not to reply (2008)

[ajuc]

I've seen a big international bank internal network shut down because someone added a group mail of +- 10 000 people to a thread with jokes.

Significant percent of these people were on holidays at the time so they responded automatically to each other with "out of office" messages and finally the network couldn't handle it.

Emails are serious business ;)

[eru → ajuc]

> I've seen a big international bank internal network shut down because someone added a group mail of +- 10 000 people to a thread with jokes.

Those stories are always entertaining. But honestly, those organisations only have themselves to blame.

Filtering and stopping these internal chains shouldn't be any harder than basic spam filtering. Mostly easier, because your filter inputs are not as adversarial.

[jerf → eru]

May you be so lucky in your career as to always correctly predict the obvious-in-hindsight.

[eru → jerf]

Sorry, I don't understand.

There's no rocket science here. Especially not today.

You could also 'just' move your company to using Google's corporate gmail offering, and let Google handle those problems for you.

(And if your company doesn't have the capacity to make such a change, they do only have themselves to blame.)

[jerf → eru]

"Sorry, I don't understand."

If you don't yet, you will someday.