So those 15,000,000 email messages collectively consumed 195,000,000,000 bytes of bandwidth. Yes, 195 gigabytes of bandwidth bouncing around between the email servers.
When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?
By Daniel Victor
Sept. 1, 2016
No.
The New York Times’s internal email system contributed to this report.
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 2, 2016, Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?.
Reply All storms at MegaCorp scale can be AWFUL.
My current employer now demands that pretty much all mailing lists be human moderated as a result.
Stupid humans :(
On the plus side, they’ve led to one of the best NYTimes articles: https://nyti.ms/2c4qK0u