21 votes

Reply All is having its own reckoning now

10 comments

  1. [2]
    JXM
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    Discussion of the original Reply All series I find situations like this fascinating. Exposing others seems to open yourself up to others exposing your past foibles and mistakes (see Asia Argento)....

    Discussion of the original Reply All series

    I find situations like this fascinating. Exposing others seems to open yourself up to others exposing your past foibles and mistakes (see Asia Argento). I don't think it invalidates the work others within Reply All and Gimlet did to document what happened at Bon Appetit though.

    8 votes
    1. TheJorro
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      The funny thing about this is that in the most recent episode of their coverage of Bon Appetit (The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2), there's a conversation with Christina Chaey where she discusses how...

      The funny thing about this is that in the most recent episode of their coverage of Bon Appetit (The Test Kitchen, Chapter 2), there's a conversation with Christina Chaey where she discusses how even though she is a BIPOC person, she found that she had convinced herself that she was part of the "in" crowd at BA and then somehow found herself on the other side of the table from other BIPOC people.

      And here, we find that these two were doing this with Reply All the entire time (literally in PJ's case), even while they were recording this perspective from Christina.

      5 votes
  2. [7]
    MonkeyPants
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    I was so excited. I thought this was about my biggest pet peeve: People unnecessarily using the reply all feature of email.

    I was so excited.

    I thought this was about my biggest pet peeve:

    People unnecessarily using the reply all feature of email.

    8 votes
    1. [5]
      streblo
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      To: Company Mailing List Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read Okay thanks for letting me know. -Bob

      To: Company Mailing List
      Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read

      Okay thanks for letting me know.

      -Bob

      4 votes
      1. [4]
        stu2b50
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        To: Company Mailing List Re: Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read Hi, you have the wrong cc. I should not be on this thread. Please remove me from this thread. -Joe

        To: Company Mailing List
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read

        Hi, you have the wrong cc. I should not be on this thread. Please remove me from this thread.

        -Joe

        4 votes
        1. streblo
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          The extra Re: is the level of detail I am here for. Really makes it feel like my actual inbox.

          The extra Re: is the level of detail I am here for. Really makes it feel like my actual inbox.

          6 votes
        2. [2]
          MonkeyPants
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          To: Company Mailing List Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read UNSUBSCRIBE

          To: Company Mailing List
          Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Attention! Please Read

          UNSUBSCRIBE

          1 vote
          1. AugustusFerdinand
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            Enter another mini pet peeve. The email response stating I've been unsubscribed. Just like I don't need a receipt for a donut, I don't need further communication from a party that I've expressed a...

            Enter another mini pet peeve. The email response stating I've been unsubscribed. Just like I don't need a receipt for a donut, I don't need further communication from a party that I've expressed a desire to never hear from again to confirm that I'll never hear from them again.

            Label my comment as offtopic

            As it's derailed the stacking of Re:

            2 votes
    2. JXM
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      To be fair, a we should shame people who reply all to emails unnecessarily. As someone who frequently has to send emails to 1000s of people in an organization, I get so mad when I get an email...

      To be fair, a we should shame people who reply all to emails unnecessarily.

      As someone who frequently has to send emails to 1000s of people in an organization, I get so mad when I get an email where it's just mass CC'ing people instead of BCC'ing. It is inevitably followed by a dozen responses from people replying all.