[masraum]

LOL!

It's funny because I've seen it over and over again.

I used to see folks at Cisco which is a tech company click on emails with attachments like the old Anna Kournikova virus.

I remember seeing a job req come out to everyone in our company in the city. Some guy "reply all" and included his resume and wanted to apply. Most of us groaned when we saw it. One of our colleagues reply alled to the guy with something like "your resume looks great. I'd hire you. Good luck." We all groaned at him.

What you described was my other favorite (thankfully, haven't seen it in a while). Email comes out to HUGE distribution list of mostly folks that don't know or don't care and should never have been copied. The few folks that do care start emailing back and forth, but are still copying the other folks. So everyone else starts "reply all" to the thread "please remove me from this email thread." Then some other genius starts reply alling to those folks to tell them to not SPAM the whole group with their replies. I've seen an inbox fill with several hundred emails in the course of an hour from one email thread.