Reckless use of "reply-all" when organising a school party. Hanging offense, surely?

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Mum 1 (to 18 other mums. No dads,
Of course, despite several dads being primary-carers, but that's a whole other thread )
"Hi -I am organising a party on X date. Can your child come?"
Mum 2 (reply-all) "yes!"
Mum 1 (reply-all) "great!"
Mum 3 (reply-All) " we can too"
Mum 1 (reply-all) "great!"

Repeat for 6 other mums so far.
WTF is wrong with these people ARGHHHHHGGGHHHHHHH!

That feels better. As you were..

The context of the op's one wouldn't bother me but I hate it's overuse at work.

Example is senior person sends an email reminder to a group of us to complete a task by x time. Certain colleagues always reply all to tell us all that they have already completed the task.

Unnecessary and smug

Reply all goes to everyone who has been sent the email you are replying too.
Yes, great idea about checking that you really meant to hit reply all! I love gmail as if you've said in the email that you've included an attachment & don't attach anything if tells you before it sends. It's fab!

The infamous Christmas 2013 reply all episode at my work included over 200 000 recipients, 95% 'please remove me from this list', 4.5% angry management in meltdown mode and some 0.5% pure hilarity.

I got 7000+ emails within 2 hours. Then the servers died.

It was epic but I really don't care for a repeat.

We had a 'reply all' storm at work a few months back, it went on for days and IT had to sort it out. After the last one people continuing them are supposed to be disciplined but I don't think it happens.
I did nearly send a personal reply to the guy who replied with the captain Picard head in hands picture... I thought it was hillareous but decided in the end that he probably shouldn't be encouraged!

Accidental reply alls are often hilarious, though!

Hi Magical
Proposal sounds great, let's run with it. Not sure if Rupert's capable of delivering on time, though, let's discuss a backup-plan over coffee!

Cheers!
[Rupert's boss]

Intended for me, recipient list included the understandably outraged Rupert.

Doodle polls are great for avoiding this kind of thing where it's all about fixing a date for something. Free, really easy to use.

yes to Doodle polls but I've yet to suggest them to friends - I have a feeling they will groan.

Group messaging in FB has this potential too if someone doesn't realise they are talking to the whole group - (no I didn't need to know about the affair on the side, thankfully not anyone I was close enough to, to have to do anything about other than ignore).

Much better for the original person to bcc everyone in the first instance. It stops all this nonsense and doesnt mean that everyones email address is shared with everyone else. This is quite a good way of slowing down viruses too from an unguarded computer.

Thank you Magical for the laugh out loud moment. Our DC football team use group emails and doodle polls, some like to reply all and you have to filter out what is needed but it can be helpful to know who's going for lift shares etc.
At work we have a company group email list only about 30 people long but it needs updating ad tableaux 5 have left and their replacements are missing. The front office use it when they get a mystery parcel delivered, plenty of intelligent IT literate people use reply all to tell us that it's not theirs. This annoys me as much as colleagues who reply thanks to emails that don't need a response. Why can't they realise some of us don't have time to read all our emails each day.

One of the best I've seen involved a "reply all" to the wrong email list - so instead of the replies going (fairly reasonably, in this case) to half a dozen people, they went to a couple of thousand. Cue lots of reply all saying stuff like should I have received this, don't think I'm on this distribution list, have you got the right list, followed by the inevitable ones saying can everyone please stop replying to all (which were, natch, themselves sent reply all), then quiet for a couple of hours, with one final email sent to all, saying simply I AM SPARTACUS. Was chortleworthy on a slow Friday afternoon.

Reply all has now been disabled.

I get this with uni emails. At the start there were 345 people in our cohort, down to 270 ish now, so really annoying!

Email is s0 dangerous. I once sent an email to a group of colleagues intensing to sign off with

Regards!

but I hit G instead of T.

Auto-correct won't let that happen again.

Make that T instead of G . . .