What began as an innocent email blast from the NYU bursar's office to students quickly devolved into inbox chaos after it was discovered that "reply all' responses were being sent to 39,979 members of the student body. Appropriately referred to as "Replyallcalypse," the unplanned campus-wide discussion broke out Monday night when Max Wiseltier attempted to forward along the original message to his mother, but instead wound up responding to its sender — along with thousands of his fellow students.
NYU Local, a campus blog, reports that his fateful error resulted in an evening full of cat GIFs, photos of Nicolas Cage, and questions like, "would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?" Some used the rare...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/29/3707252/nyu-mailing-list-error-reply-all-40000-students
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