The Great 'Reply-All' DWAN Fiasco of 2017

[Vell]

I think it was about 2017 when an innocuous survey on the DWAN lead to an immense reply-all fiasco where everyone from the lowest NCMs to highest officers got tied up in an accidental DWAN-wide reply-all email chain complete with memes, jokes and just a dash of extremely unimpressed (and unusually ignored) very upper leadership.

If anyone still has that chain and is willing to post it here, it would be greatly appreciated. I moved on to civilian IT but the memory of that email chain lives on!

 

[dapaterson]

Cooking classes offered by the NCR Officer's Mess earlier this month enter the chat...

 

[Staff Weenie]

Amateurs - some time in 2006 or 2007, somebody who was retiring in Dec just before the break sent an email out to everyone in the address book noting their enjoyable career and wishing everyone the best. And of course, in full silly season festive mood, everyone hit reply all. Apparently that can really chew up bandwidth and cause Admins to have a stroke.

 

[Navy_Pete]

I love when people do something that results in a change of policy.

Much smaller scale, but MEPM now issues ballcaps due to some rogue ones I got made up for the subsection (with some spares) in my last posting, because they wouldn't make unit ones. Small victory (also the ones I had made looked better).

On the other end, there are people whose actions that resulted in warnings on microwaves about not using it to dry your pets, and people who got to provide input on industrial safety warning stickers after mangling themselves (like the hand getting mangled by gearing).