Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm:
Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor
[...] Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm.
The Register understands this one started with a new offer from Microsoft's internal store about discount software deals. While that offer was generous, it didn't apply to all Microsoft staff everywhere, which prompted an early Reply-All message asking why not. And then the snowball started rolling, and nothing could stop it.
We understand the mail went throughout Microsoft – enterprise, cloud and even Xbox folks found it in their inboxes.
Our Microsoft sources tell us staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it, posting frivolous messages that celebrate the ridiculousness of the situation.
Laughter is the best medicine?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Friday March 27 2020, @08:51PM (2 children)
Last time I checked Exchange wasn't an actual SMTP server. It's been so many, many years since I had the misfortune to administrate such a system, but I do remember needing to run a SMTP server separately.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Friday March 27 2020, @09:23PM
In a Java application server I am able to SMTP email to an Exchange server to be relayed to end users. "you have 2 new somethings you need to approve", etc.
I agree that I wouldn't call it an SMTP server. But it can accept email that way. This includes two message bodies (plain text | html) and file attachments.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @03:09AM
This would be not at all surprising.
After-all, SMTP would invoke MickeySloth's NIH syndrome.