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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] WindyRebel 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A majority of corporate idiots don’t bcc. That’s why the above happens a lot.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There’s a way in most email environments to setup a mail flow rule that will convert any email with over x number of users CC’d to BCC.

The system must handle the idiots, not the other way around

[–] WindyRebel 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting. I’ve never seen that, but I haven’t worked in a company where I’ve needed to send to more than, at most, 15 people at a time.

Probably should be a standard default setting. I wonder what the case for not doing this is? If someone needs to see who is in a group they can usually just open the group in their client and view the emails.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"why tf did stupid outlook convert my 400 CC's to BCC THEY SHOULD RESPECT THE USER'S CHOICE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'd rather a system that weeds out the idiots

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Aaaaallllll the fucking time....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The talk of herding cats comes to mind...

In the particular one that came to mind if I recall correctly was a badly configured distro list that let anyone reply to it. Normally broadcast lists like that would be reserved for people on a special comms team, but the permissions didn't get restricted properly.