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My email cockups are fairly tame, but I have recieved a few belters from people at work managing to reply to 'all users' type emails without realising that perhaps they should have changed the response address.

Exhibit A - Following a motivational email from big boss praising a colleagues contribution to a project the response 'fucking teachers pet' was sent to the whole office. Nice.

Exhibit B - A personal email from a member of staff to another member of staff, clearing up once and for all the question of whether they were spending most of their lunchtimes boinking in the nearest car park, also sent to the whole office.

Finally, not really an onosecond, but an illustration of how some people should not be allowed email. Someone sent one of those bloody awful poems supposedly written by a 12 year old in Arkansas with terminal cancer. You know the ones I mean. Anyway, did they forward it to their friends... no. To the rest of the office ... no. In fact they sent it to around 25,000 people (I work for a multinational). Then the fun really began.

No fewer than six people hit 'reply to all' and informed the person that it was an inappropriate use of company email and sending it to everyone in the company was a huge load on the (insert correct technical term, as I am a technological feckwit). Not quite as much a load as another six emails to 25,000 users, eh? Eventually the (insert etc.) collapsed under the load. Who needs to write proper viruses when you can just let natural stupidity do the work for you.

Incidentally, I avoided an onosecond myself by checking before I sent the very abusive email I had composed to the last of the six offenders. Perhaps sending it to one of the board of directors would have been a bad idea (although how you get to run a company the size of a small planet while being so stupid amazes me).

Apologies for lack of sub-'Carry On' humour length apology.
(Throbbe, Thu 26 May 2005, 12:23, Reply)