Reply to post: Re: Reply-all email chains are no laughing matter.

150 infosec bods now know who they're up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu

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Re: Reply-all email chains are no laughing matter.

Yep, they're no laughing matter, mostly when you're in charge and are watching in despair the 1-5% idiots replying to all, exponentially loading all systems and storage !

With only 150 recipients, risk is almost 0, but with X thousands, like I could myself verify, things can go titsup quite quickly. Then, you'll need to take down all replies, if at all possible giving the architecture, before the Great Global Collapse tm.

For those blaming the poor sod, this is a bit stupid. Everyone has done this at least once, and given how retarded outlook controls are (aka, you need to manually move from cc to bcc before sending, as bcc is not available by default), of course people are doing mistakes. You forgot to do the last drag before sending ? Bam, you got it !

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