I hate email users

We got this string of emails forwarded to our company. I have removed the people on the to: list because I have no evidence that they forwarded it, unlike the people in the from fields.

Normally this sort of thing wouldn't concern me, we've locked down our top-level distribution lists to remove the possibility of anyone forwarding this to mass quantities of people. However some --enterprising-- (read: we've locked down the lists to keep you from doing this) user put EVERY OTHER MAILING LIST in a single email, and forwarded it to the WHOLE COMPANY. And then OTHER USERS STARTED RE-FORWARDING IT TO THE WHOLE COMPANY. And then OTHER USERS STARTED REPLYING TO THE WHOLE COMPANY TO PLEASE STOP FORWARDING THIS. And then finally, the last guy sent "ditto", which reminds us of course, of the dilbert cartoon about this exact subject.

The help desk "spoke directly to, and reminded each user of our email acceptable user policy". Glad I wasn't doing it, because there would have been some crying going on, and I probably would have got fired.

From: Goddard, Shando [mailto:SGoddard@petro-canada.ca]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:50 PM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.

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From: Appleton, Lee
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:10 AM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.

Best Regards,

D.L. (Lee) Appleton

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From: McKinnon, Jim
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:02 PM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.

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From: Robert Lawson [mailto:palawson@telusplanet.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:34 PM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.


Best of luck to everyone.



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From: Lawson, Robert [mailto:BoLawson@petro-canada.ca]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:43 PM
To: Lawson, Robert
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.

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From: Campbell, Dennis
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:41 AM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.

This is a just in case it does work.

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From: Marty Price [mailto:Marty.Price@Halliburton.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:39 AM
To: removed
Subject: FW: I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES.