Collection of runaway emails sent by NYU students (Courtesy Buzzfeed, http://aka.ms/nyu-email)

40,000 NYU students find out why reply-all is the worst thing ever

11/29/2012

You know that nightmarish reply-all from your office, which consisted of 40 people replying all to tell everyone else to stop replying all? Imagine that — times 1,000 — and you have New York University's "replyallcalypse," which was set off when an employee emailing the student body about paperless tax forms used an older mass-email service, allowing for reply-alls. The group conversation, as you can imagine, soon distintegrated to Nicolas Cage photos and a significant amount of profanity. [Source]

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