I swear this is true,
At work today I receive a e-mail from our Public Information officer.
I opened the e-mail and immediately realized that this e-mail was copied to me mistake.
This e-mail was a curt message to someone else who had for some reason used the wrong letterhead logo on a document.
With-in just a few minutes I am receiving the same e-mail from everyone that works in our county government. Several thousand people who evidently received the same e-mail by mistake.
Everyone who received the e-mail by mistake evidently "replied to all" that they were not the person that this e-mail was intended for.
Because the e-mail system is shared by the entire state Government the e-mail ends up being sent to everyone that works for the state Government as well, Probably 100,000 people or more.
It keeps going.
With in the system there is evidently a link to the federal government email address book because "reply to all" responses seem to be coming in from all over the world now.
So, this email has been clogging the whole system all day long and people are starting to get PO'd.
I think I'll mosey on up stairs and ask that person who sent the original email if she meant to send that email all over the world or if that happened by mistake.
Morale of the story: Think twice before selecting the Reply to all option when you answer your e-mails.