Re: When it all started
Ah, I was having a reasonable day until I read ... Teams
It is indeed a fetid excuse for a UI, but that's not all. As an aside, we are also inflicted with an Oracle cloud based HR system which seriously challenges MS in the "how not to do a UI" contest.
A while ago (AC for obvious reasons), I got an email at work saying I'd been added to a Team. Then the queries, "WTF ?" questions, "please unsubscribe me" requests, got started. Then someone posted that a new version of a tool we had accounts with required that we be members of a Team - and hence we had all (some thousands I believe) had been added. This message was quite clear, and also said that you had to remain in the team - if you removed yourself then said tool would not work for you.
Clearly no-one read this message - they still kept demanding to be removed, questioned WTF it was about, and all that.
Even after someone else had repeated the "don't remove yourself or the tool will stop working" and added that if you do, you can do it yourself by (insert list of instructions) - the angry responses carried on for a while.
Just to add, there are two types of user - those that have accidentally put lots of addresses into the To: field, and those that just haven't done it yet. [sfx: whistles innocently]I'm in the former camp.
And some of us of a certain age will recall when it was still common to generate non-deliverable messages in response to spam to non-existant mailboxes etc. Some of us will recall what it's like when your email happens to be the one the spammer picked to be the From: address - and you get the hundreds of messages/day backscatter.