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Why not just have an easy button that you can click saying Do Not Allow Reply All?

I know that there are some ways you can limit reply-all availability, like in the URL linked here. But there's a note: If recipients open this email in other mail applications except Microsoft Outlook, such as opening on web page via web mailbox, they can reply all this email.

I'm semi-tech savvy but I'm no programmer. It feels like it should be easy to do, so either I'm totally wrong or email services are really missing out on a great thing they could do.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The way to do this is to use a mailing list that only allows a limited number of people to send emails to it. You could do this automatically when someone clicked a “Prohibit Reply All” button, but such a feature is unnecessary if you use mailing lists configured that way by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That basically means sending the same email over and over but with one recipient per email

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That isn’t what it means at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yes, it is precisely what mailing lists do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

At my work we have something in place that prevents somebody from sending to more than 50 recipients but we control our own mail servers and know how many people are in the largest department

Basically, things like this exist but aren't necessarily intuitive to set up and defaults would require contextual knowledge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a special hell for everyone sharing tips to stop people from reply all'ing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why? BCC is the solution and has been part of email since at least 1990. I'm not condoning a dogpile on OP, but this is a solved problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Better than BCC is using a Distribution List with restrictions on who can send to it. Helps see who else got the email, without blowing up with reply-all emails. Obviously this only works in a corporate environment where distribution lists can be restricted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the answer, bbc is the solution.

To get less "tech inclined" people to use the bbc feature is another story.

Sending a email to the whole office from HR, bbc all recipients. Then recipients can only reply to HR, and not 600 plus staff members, into a email chain that last all day asking people to stop replying all, while replying all at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So are you directly supplying the bbc or did you hire someone?

What's so technical about working with a bbc? I mean they're big but not that different from a regular c.

You want to bbc over 600 people? You're going to need people working in shifts. I don't think it could be done all at once.

You want the bbcs to last all day? Jesus that's a hell of an ask. I hope you're hiring professionals.

What's email got to do with bbc?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago

The solution is if you're sending a mass email that shouldn't be replied to you use BCC. So it's really the sender's fault

Outlook does give a warning now if you're sending to a distro list

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is this from that one about that lunch thing where people ignored when told to only reply to that one guy. It gave me a bit of enjoyment this week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

you think thats bad. group texts automatically send to all. It doesn't even default to just replying to the last person to send to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

We brought on a man in his mid 50s. He knows the work and doesn't complain about long hard hours. The problem is he can barely work his iPhone let alone a laptop. I'm just a team lead so I don't need to deal with his computer shit really, but I learned quickly that I couldn't put him on group texts. He cannot tell the difference between a group text and a regular text.

"Don't know why you're asking me"

"You should talk to X about that"

"X" was in the group text as was his boss. After that I just took him off the group texts for the rest of the project and sent him need to know info separately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is correct. Any message sent to a group, should reply to the group by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah for real, fuck SMS protocol for omitting basic quality of life features developed decades prior.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

at my last job, someone from corporate sent out a mass email to literally everyone in the company (thousands of people) without using BCC and that chain ended up lasting for weeks before someone higher up eventually said that further reply alls will be punished lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That means your mail admins sucked at their job.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh believe me, everyone working at that company's corporate office sucked at their job, including me lmao. every hour was amateur hour!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

every hour was amateur hour!

lol, I am stealing this!

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago

Here's my snarky take on it:

Because it's not the job of the mail client to decide what parts of the protocol should be hidden from stupid users.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My wife and I were doing big renovations on our home and were dealing with lots of contractors. I would email them and include my wife’s email. Yet every contractor failed to press reply all when responding so my wife was constantly left out of the loop

It turns out people just don’t care to think about or understand basic technology.

This stuff really needs to be taught in school (like how we used to have typing and business communication classes)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I kind of think that contractors not being well versed in digital things is to be expected.

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