Originally Posted by
hamptoninnsider
Then some people decided to reply all. Then some more people didn't like getting the emails and replied all themselves. And it continued. Eventually a message came up on the computers saying the email system was down. Good times.
This happens more often than you would think
...Even brought down Microsoft's internal exchange environment several years ago:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/20...08/109626.aspx
I used to be on the email team at a company of similar size, and when one of these reply-all storms occured an employee in europe decided to capitalize on the opportunity and mention he had some skis for sale - why not? he had the attention of about 70,000 people!