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Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Setting up a GNU Mailman mailing-list with the 'reply-to-all' setting still set to on (as per the defaults).

It was intended to be a distribution list.

The list had 8,000 recipients.

I found out what an ohnosecond is, as the blood chilled a little in my veins.

Turned out not too bad, 6 innocuous replies were sent out to everyone. It was fully open for about 25 minutes before I set 'reply-to-all' to off. Could have been much worse.

Will never ever forget to do that with a mailing-list again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

At least it was only six replies and didn't fully overload the email server. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643