This accidental reply all at Reuters reached nightmare proportions.
On Wednesday, someone named Vince accidentally sent an email to 33,000 Reuters email accounts, reports The Wall Street Journal. Presented with a list of thousands of emails, hundreds of employees and reporters at the news company followed their natural urge in the situation: replying all.
Reuters employees took to Twitter to discuss the deluge of emails with the hashtag #ReutersReplyAllGate.
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The vast majority of the replies ironically seem to have been people telling others not to reply all – while replying all themselves, thus furthering the issue they protested.
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Poor Vince was just trying to find a way to fix the situation:
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