SocraticGadfly: With American diplomats like this …

January 11, 2009

With American diplomats like this …

It’s no wonder America’s standing in the world has slipped. State Department staffers nearly crashed their own e-mail system recently.

How? Everybody kept hitting “reply to all” in response to a blank e-mail inadvertently set out to several hundred people on one mailing. Of course, you can guess all the different ways people then responded to THAT, if you’ve ever been in a similar situation.

In essence, it caused a self-inflicted denial of service attack!

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