Kerry Kennedy Christmas card e-mail sparks e-fight

NY Post ^ | 12/31/13

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

The brouhaha started when Kennedy, who’s president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center, blasted out a holiday card with an image of her family, a biblical quote and “Merry Christmas.”

Even though the recipients were bcc’d, thanks to a tech glitch, anyone who responded by hitting “Reply All” sent their message plus e-mail address to Kennedy’s full distribution list.

**SNIP**

But as an unending stream of trite responses clogged inboxes, a war of words broke out. “Please remove me from mass e-mails to Kerry in reply to her christmas card,” snapped activist Valerie Sklarevsky. “Please REMOVE ME FROM YOUR EMAIL LISTS!!!” begged another. Karen Duffy also asked to be taken off the list. Finally, on Friday, an e-mailer said he was copying RFK Center COO John Zurick to “suspend the group e-mail that led to the inbox clutter.”

[Libloather]

Unca Teddy's fault.

[Innovative]

“hitting “Reply All””

That caused and I am sure continue to cause many problems and embarrassments.

[ClearCase_guy]

I once worked at a place where someone used the wrong distro list to tell a few thousand people something along the lines of "the copy machine next to Phil's desk is low on toner".

One by one the "reply alls" started coming:

"Phil who?"
"Which building?"
"Which state?"
"Can you people knock it off??"
"Hey! Stop using reply all!"
"Are you people stupid or what?"

I counted 180 replies before I stopped counting.

[texas booster]

Including the Biblical verse was the real reason why the recipients got mad.

[Revolting cat!]

Happened to me as well, in a place which was Rational’s and before that Atria’s best customer (not that it’s relevant.)

What’s relevant is a well known actress’ recentFakebook rant complaining that some fool (an institution) sent her and 100s of others Season’s Greetings without using the BCC option.

[Chode]

these kennedy wretches are the AIDS of the body politic...

[plain talk]

We have probably all been victim at some point to the absolute stupidity of idiots using REPLY ALL to instruct a sender to remove them from an email distro.

[BenLurkin]

And the Clintons are the herpes!

[freedumb2003]

Best “Reply All” evah! story.

At my company a few years back we would have huge cc lists for related groups: Application provider (SAP, Oracle, etc.) or line of business (banking, public sector, high tech, etc.).

Anyway, a blast went out asking some technical question. Then one guy replied all with an answer. Then someone else replied all “Hey, Joe! Long time no hear from! How are you?” (or something similar). “Joe” replied ALL with “Wasting time at (client name) just playing solitaire, watching internet movies and racking up billable hours.”

A minute later came “(Joe) would like to recall message ...”

I have never seen a system-generated message that looked panic-striken before.

Don’t know if “Joe” stayed employed or not, but it was one of the funniest dang things I ever saw.

[editor-surveyor]

Or Micro Mush not providing a BCC option for Outlook Express.

[ClearCase_guy]

a place which was Rational’s and before that Atria’s best customer (not that it’s relevant.)

For a ClearCase_guy, such things are always relevant.

[Prospero]

Add to this a recipient’s never-ending readiness to react to wholly imagined injury, and you end up with a belly laugh.

[detective]

I know an employee who wrote an email to a friend saying that many of the higher level officials were all liars, incompetents, gay and several other criticisms many of the documented with specific example. He meant to send it only to a trusted friend to blow off steam about recent anger at the higher ups. Unfortunately in his anger he mistakenly hit send all. Literally hundreds of people got the email.

Needless to say it was not a great career move. He soon found employment elsewhere.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Or the Bon Jovis or Bruce Springsteens of politics. One hit 50 years ago and they stretch it out for all it’s worth. I mean seriously, when the hell is this crap going to end? JFK was good maybe for inspiring people, but when it came to foreign affairs he was an absolute disaster. And because he gets shot every sperm and egg even remotely related to him must get the red carpet rolled out leading to an office in politics?

[Chode]

100%

[a fool in paradise]

Even though the recipients were bcc’d, thanks to a tech glitch, anyone who responded by hitting “Reply All” sent their message plus e-mail address to Kennedy’s full distribution list.

Please remove me from this list.

I've worked at major corporate offices like that.

[Chode]

ain't THAT the truth... and the RATS complain about just two Bush's

[Milton Miteybad]

Or the Bon Jovis or Bruce Springsteens of politics. One hit 50 years ago and they stretch it out for all it’s worth. I mean seriously, when the hell is this crap going to end? JFK was good maybe for inspiring people, but when it came to foreign affairs he was an absolute disaster. And because he gets shot every sperm and egg even remotely related to him must get the red carpet rolled out leading to an office in politics?

You mean you don't think a family whose members struggle to achieve even the most modest levels of intellectual mediocrity should be accorded royal treatment?

Ehhhh...I guess I don't either.

[Black Agnes]

I have a similar story. Only it involved a unix admin hitting reply all on a mail that came from the company/departmental secretary.

Who he was banging.

And involved all sorts of personal information about their trysts, her fears and apprehensions of things he wanted to ‘do’ to her and details about her personal, um, attributes.

The ‘all’ on ‘reply all’ were about 12 corporate hardened unix, network and security admins.

It.

Was.

Bad.

I know one guy who pulled several muscles he laughed so hard.

Admin in question ultimately quit. He was totally unable to live that down. The secretary had to quit too.

[SunkenCiv]

> ...a holiday card with an image of her family, a biblical quote and “Merry Christmas.” Even though the recipients were bcc’d, thanks to a tech glitch, anyone who responded by hitting “Reply All” sent their message plus e-mail address to Kennedy’s full distribution list.

Thanks Libloather.