Thursday, January 28, 2010

Please Don't Reply All (2)

As Jane pointed out in the comments section of last nights post, we ended up with 79 emails on the subject. I will not paste all the copies but get the gist that 90% of them said either "Stop replying all", "this wasn't intended for me", "me either" or "Please remove me from this email". So you don't feel like you missed anything, here are some of my favorties from today:

* DO NOT REPLY TO ALL- THE FIRST SEND WAS OBVIOUSLY AN ERROR SO STOP THE CHAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Me either. Maybe someone should send it to the right person. Maybe *Jane Doe* the person who signed for this delivery in the first place. That would make maybe a little sense. Here it is *Jane Doe*. It has your Signature on it. I don't know how it's going to so many wrong people.


*PLEASE STOP USING RETURN ALL BUTTON!!

*Please STOP hitting 'reply to all'! Some body has way too much time on their hands. I've already deleted over 20 emails on this subject this morning and they are still coming in. Thank you.

*STOP THIS INSANITY!!!

*Please keep sending me these emails.

*Maybe this is a virus

*I tried not to respond to the bazillion emails BUT some has to point out the obvious. If everyone will STOP answering and asking for everyone to stop sending them THEY WILL STOP. As long as oneone feels the need to say STOP, they won't.

*STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE THIS IS REDICULUS. I CAN NOT EVEN GET CAUGHT UP ON MY OWN IMPORTANT EMAILS.

*Anyone else find this oddly entertaining? Any guesses how long before people stop replying to this? I figure some time tomorrow around 10am. I’ll start a chart

*It is pretty entertaining; imagine what would happen if everyone stopped replying!

*Please remove me from this list. This has nothing to do with what I do.

10 comments:

Queen B said...

these people need a hobby when they fuel the reply all fire to amuse themselves

which response was yours? :)

Ruth Anne said...

reply all is so overused and abused.

UGH. I know your pain.

LoSpace said...

I wonder if some people's email is set to reply all automatically. That is so silly! At least trees aren't dying, just bandwidth...

Ann said...

Isn't there a way to remove the 'reply all' button in Outlook?

Diane said...

I didn't get the email.

Andrea said...

They must have all been managers! ;D

Jane said...

Is that what that button is for??

Anonymous said...

Check out http://4crowd.com - It lets you have conversations with lots of people without creating a reply-all mess.

Anonymous said...

nice post. thanks.

Queen B said...

I just discovered that my new_company.com email address was on a chain of 40 reply alls on 6/26/09. And to think... I thought that was just another normal day.

Why do 39 separate people need to reply all "please remove me from this email"???????????? There was only 1 email to begin with!