“Reply All” people (Dave Berry)
May 6th, 2007 | Published in Humor and Satire, Internet, Quotes
The authors also touch on a pet peeve of mine: people who abuse the “Reply All” command. Perhaps you are one of them. You receive a message addressed to many recipients — often a much-recycled joke, story, list, urban myth, etc. There are millions of these floating around; many of us simply delete them unread. But you, the “Reply All” abuser, read it and decide to respond with some clever comment of your own (such as “LOL”). And instead of hitting “Reply,” which would inflict your reply only on the sender, you hit “Reply All,” thereby forcing everybody on the recipient list to receive, and delete, yet another useless piece of e-mail. Please do not take this personally, “Reply All” people, but: everybody hates you. We hate you almost as much as we hate the people who mass-mail this Internet sludge in the first place.
–Dave Berry, “You’ve Got Trouble” (May 6, 2007)