Hit ‘Reply to All,’ Shut down U.K. National Health Service

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: jonathan.spira () accuramediagroup com
> Date: November 14, 2016 at 5:28:01 PM EST
> To: dfarber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Hit ‘Reply to All,’ Shut down U.K. National Health Service
>
> Dave 
>
> A cautionary tale... 
>
> Information Overload Chronicles: Hit ‘Reply to All,’ Shutdown U.K. National Health Service 
> http://accura.cc/3d1gw2a 
>
> "Earlier today, an e-mail created by an employee at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom accidentally 
> went to 840,000 employees there. The problem didn’t stop there: multiple employees clicked “reply to all” and 
> responded, thereby compounding the problem. Needless to say, the e-mail server crawled to a halt and probably had 
> smoke coming out of its air vents.... 
> <SNIP>" 
>
>
> Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Szívélyes üdvözlet/Cordialement/Cordiali saluti/Saludos/Vänliga hälsningar 
>
> /s/ Jonathan
>
>  



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