[jplahn]

Ah. This reminds me of a great story in Amazon of a conference room booking email gone wrong. The email was inadvertently sent to the entire company, so that employees in Japan, China, Scotland, France, etc. all knew of this fabled booking. At its peak over 280k emails were being delivered throughout the company.

Also good to remember: replying UNSUBSCRIBE to an email list is typically not how you go about it.

[wutbrodo]

I remember this happening at Google, but I'm not sure if it was the entire company or just something like eng-announce. I myself once had the wrong CL # on my clipboard and attached a random CL of mine to a bug that Jeff Dean had opened about a development tool used by every engineer (with very active discussion across the engineer on the bug). I don't remember these incidents being treated with anything but mild amusement, certainly not "email hell". This probably has something to do with the fact that GMail makes it pretty easy to block an email thread.