However, when a Thomson Reuters employee in the firm’s St. Paul, Minnesota office did just that recently, the unfortunate missive went to some 33,000 recipients. So reports The Wall Street Journal.
The ensuing frenzy of recipients hitting “Reply All” to tell the unfortunate sender to stop hitting “Reply All” took on a social-media life of its own. It quickly became known on the Twitter-sphere as #ReutersReplyAllGate and made the “trending on” Minneapolis list.
While some tweets expressed annoyance, many of them took the incident in stride. A couple of choice responses from Thomson Reuters recipients:
- “STOP REPLYING ALL, says the person who just replied all.”
- “I survived #Reutersreplyallgate 2K15.”
- “The email chain has become self aware. It’s flouted my rule and moved back to my Inbox.”