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Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:49:13 -0000

I agree. Storage is cheap, and people shouldn't be encouraged to delete emails, even if that's not really what happens.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

dannorris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:11 -0000

No purging, they simply raised my limit. My other comments related to
the cost of someone spending time reviewing and enforcing limits versus
the cost of storage...that storage was relatively cheap compared to
human time. I'm quite sure that no one considered the implications
(legal or otherwise) of removing emails.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:09:33 -0000

Did they purge you? I think discovery laws covering email require backups to tape or some other permanent archive now. Destroying emails is a no-no.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

dannorris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:31:08 -0000

I worked at a company that had limits on my inbox--not tiny limits, but I keep a lot of mail for CYA purposes. They asked me to purge messages. I asked them to purge customers and/or employees to help me reduce the amount of mail...or remove the limit. I didn't have any more problems after that (but don't work there any more).

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:11:52 -0000

Oh yeah, that's a special variant I forgot to mention. Don't get me started on the tiny inbox size limit.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:10:33 -0000

Great story. I don't think there's a way to stop a thread from an admin level, and if there were, someone would have a boring job. As with spam, I think my tolerance level is just higher than most, which I don't get because ignoring costs very little effort compared to getting angry enough to fire off a reply.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

Matt Rasmussen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:44:29 -0000

I dislike it when people zombie reply to all but enjoy the rants that follow. I always wonder why some email admin person doesn't do something to stop the spam. (Not being an email admin I wonder if there is such an ability...)

However, I'm not totally innocent in these cases. Three or four years ago after at least 50 "please unsubscribe" and flame replies to the initial gaffe that was sent to 500+ employees, I replied to all with the response "You are all now off my Christmas card list!" =) Some people I didn't even know replied to me asking me to reconsider.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

megbear — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:29:09 -0000

My favorite one of these involved a very large attachment in which those who replied all somehow sent it again. So not only did I get to see the humor/flame-o-grams I also got to go over quota a few times. Yeah!

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:55:39 -0000

But was it as funny? Your filtering skills kept you out of the humor loop. You should duck back in to see the last few. Great stuff.

Point is valid, I guess some people a) ignored, b) filtered, c) got pissed and replied rather than doing a or b, d) made a joke, e) all of the above :)

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

Wayne Boerger — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:42:23 -0000

I don't get why people get all worked up about it either. After about 10 (I was on the list too), I did a quick filter add in Thunderbird and haven't seen any since. I realize that not everyone knows how or is willing to do that, but it seems pretty simple to me.

BTW, I have been on at least 3-4 of those type of email strings this year. The prior one's went on MUCH longer than this one.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:12:22 -0000

I know. I'm actually disappointed it came to an end. The IQ tangent was getting good. Ah irony, it wouldn't be so fun if everyone got it.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

jkuramot — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:11:22 -0000

In this case, yes, but in others, GMail is a bit jarring, e.g. it threads all my LinkedIn bacn, which I don't find all that useful. It's sometimes confusing when you just so happen to have the same subject for two different, unrelated emails.

These are corner cases though. I've been using GMail since 2004, happily.

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

Tim — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:54:05 -0000

Hey Jake
I was on that thread and was waiting for the flames(fun) to continue ... dang.

I cant believe how worked up folks get and then want to tell everyone how worked up they are about how everyone is replying all and getting them all worked up ... an amusing diversion.
Tim

Re: Do You Zombie Reply to All?

LukeG — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:38:01 -0000

Sounds like gmail would've made your life much easier...the beauty of threading.