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Shadowblazer
03-20-2003, 07:44 AM
I just love my coworkers sometimes. The other day, somebody sent a message to every single staff member here regarding the war. It was actually a forward that they probably got from their mother or brother or Uncle Cleetus about starting up some sort of petition to the UN.

Anyway, the message itself is irrelevant. The point is that this person forwarded it to hundreds of people, most of whom have never heard of the sender in the first place. Now as I expected, the next few messages in my inbox were from people who agreed with the sender, people who disagreed, people bitching about sending messages to the entire university, and people replying with "Please remove me from your list," since they're apparently too retarded to realize that the only way to be removed from the "list" in question is to have their e-mail account deleted.

What I want to know is why can't any of these people figure out that the button they're looking for is "Reply," not "Reply to All." It's one thing to express their agreement or anger with the sender, it's quite another to do so with the entire staff of Western Carolina University as an audience. Seriously, if I want spam I can login to any number of non-work accounts and get more than enough. If I want pointless bickering, I've got a whole message board full of it right here :sb:

Here's what things have degraded to. This is one of the more recent messages I've had the pleasure of receiving.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Lovin
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:08 PM
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Subject: RE:



James,

Is that a quote from Karl Marx?Yes that's right, a one-line question to a totally unreleated topic that he felt the need to send to the nearly one thousand people whose names you see above. What's worse is that whoever James is, he responded in kind, sending his answer to every blessed one of us. Oh and bear in mind that what I pasted above was only the very beginning of the message. I couldn't include the whole thing because it was about 75,000 characters over the limit (it contained all the previous replies, as well as the absurdly long list of recipients to go with each one)

I hate people.

Breaker
03-20-2003, 09:31 AM
Give us the senders email, pls. =O

No one pisses off my Shadowbaby, :s

Jemsee
03-20-2003, 12:30 PM
LOL
That is quite a list.
They should have a topic in their FAQs on how to piss the most people off with only one keystoke.

bigjoe
03-20-2003, 12:37 PM
Lots of Jeffs there, eh? I was able to point out your name ;)

Anyway , yeah , that shits annoying. He should be formally executed

Ich
03-20-2003, 12:50 PM
The problem is, too much of the internet is overly user friendly. This allows the riff-raff to make a mess of it.

DarkDragoonX
03-20-2003, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by ICHBINDASWALROSS
The problem is, too much of the internet is overly user friendly. This allows the riff-raff to make a mess of it.

I don't think the problem with "Reply" versus "Reply to All" lies with products being user friendly, as the point of something being user friendly is so that stupid people can avoid doing things like clicking "Reply to All." The problem is solely user stupidity.

I think we need a program that has a built in IQ test. The program will not work until the test has been taken. Depending on your score, certain features may or may not be restricted to the user. For example, someone with a fairly low IQ would never even see a "Reply to All" button. Instead, they would see a text box that says "There would be a button here, if you weren't such a fucking moron."

Yeah, I know that was an incredibly involved setup for such a bad joke. That's what makes it funny.

moocow
03-20-2003, 02:53 PM
*shakes her head*
Idiot.

Foxy
03-20-2003, 03:13 PM
I bet that guy felt like a complete moron when he realized what he had done.

Well, at least it wasn't a more "personal" message. *LOL*

Jigglysaint
03-20-2003, 03:16 PM
The people are the same kind of dolts who press the new post button at the forums when they want to reply to somthing.

mikeron
03-20-2003, 04:09 PM
http://www.computoredge.com/Archive/Editorial%20Archive/108/2mailing%20108.pdf