An opened email cannot be deleted, just as a spoken remark cannot be taken back. The outcome of a message, once it has been transmitted, is beyond the sender's control, but the sender is nonetheless accountable for its effects.
But sometimes, we really cannot help but commit minor email etiquette violations once and a while, especially when using office or school email that involves a lot of chain messages and group announcements. The "Reply All" button always sits at the bottom of your email like a big red button setting up the apocalypse.
It can happen to any of us. Some of us may have already experienced clicking "Reply All" in sending an email intended to be sent to a sole receiver. But did you know that even people in the armed forces are email dummies? According to recent reports, they only recently managed to survive a barrage of "Reply All" emails.
US Air Force Hit by Reply-All Email Spam
In a recent Gizmodo article, it was reported that a "replyallcalypse" occurred when a low-level administrative employee at the German Ramstein Air Force Base sent an email asking for assistance with a computer problem. She added, "Please help us!!! " about a tacky and dated logo that kept appearing on Ramstein's monitors. "This terrible green statement," she referred to it as.
How did this happen? From what it looks like, the Air Force has an email that can enable any individual to send an email to officers of every rank. This means that tricksters only need to access a single email address to spam the USAF's entire email system.
Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe and other military communities from Africa and Europe. The said base is housing more than 50,000 US troops. The email blast in question reached as far as New York, Texas, and Florida USAF bases.
Is Air Force Email Prone to Spam?
The barrage of reply-all emails did not end with a single email from the German base. A Gizmodo insider, who thought the incident "was too funny not to share," informed the news outlet that the US Air Force has a distribution address called "AF all."
What happened next after the Ramstein email blast is much like an exponential spread of more reply all emails. Reddit user FlyingCyclist claims that what is happening right now is essentially a lot of other officers advising everyone not to reply by, in fact, also replying to all. A number of "Please remove me from this email chain!" messages have been observed in the same email network.
Some were also pleading with other officers to stop hitting Reply-All. This suggests that this incident has happened before and that USAF officers have already had enough of it.
