First mass email: You’re Fired!
Ability would make sense in the headline. Power, no.
There is very little that is difficult about doing this with the right software and hardware behind it.
The hardest thing would likely be creating the master list of all government employees.
This could be a great idea, but also wouldn’t it be considered working off the clock? Using non-paid time of the employee to read the messages? And what about people who have plans that get charged for messages?
I’m just wondering if this has been thought all the way through.....
"Your inbox has 270,000,000 new messages"
I beleive that at least two of the agencies have no direct email capabilites with the rest of them. Due to classifications in emails, the DIA and the CIA have to use a portal if they want to get with another agency. I amsure there are a few others, but I have no direct knowledge of them.
What could go wrong?
This is called an e-mail group. Add all users to the correctly named group, and boom. There you go. You also probably want to set controls on who can post to it. Lest you send out a message and get back 100,000 “PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST!” responses to all. And you don’t want that.
It’s going to be tested soon. We were provided the originating email address that will be used for the broadcasts.
In the early years of DHS some idiot in DC accidently sent an email to the entire agency. It was just a regular junk email for a DC office.
Employees across the country ticked off by the junk mail starting responding with “Take me off your email list”. All of those replies also were sent to all DHS employees.
In a cascading act of idiocy more and more employees demanded to be off the email list. These reply emails also went to every employee.
Before long everyone’s in box had thousands and thousands of garbage messages.
It may have been the first ever self-inflicted denial of service attack in US history.
DOGE should write the first email describing how one agency is being cut by 75%. Send.
One click, yes. All at once? No. They generally throttle them at the server level and send in batches of a few thousand.
They tested it last week. We were warned it was coming so we wouldn’t report it as spam. I like the direct communication without the agency filtering what he says.
This could get interesting. A lot can be interpreted by the handling of an email.
Why wasn’t this already in place ?
Even if the E-Mails are different departments it should be simple to do like this.
FirstName.LastName.Department@usgov.gov (I am guessing this is how it is right now.)
use.less.*@usgov.gov
or better yet:
*.*.*@usgov.gov
And NO HYPHENATED CRAP on last names ! If you’re Married then use your new last name.
just think. a personal email from trump on your desk every Monday morning.
I would look forward to that but some might not.
To anyone who has him blocked….you’re fired!
I worked for one of the Fortune Five companies in the ‘90s. They owned other major companies. I could’ve sent an email to all of them at once if I’d wanted to. Many thousands of people. Some news anchors were on the contact list, as well as other familiar names. (I had an email war going on between myself and a big lib hotshot reporter.)
It seems it should be more than easy for the administration.
SEIU complained that such an e mail is an invasion of the privacy of the workplace