[whack]

And without proper mailing-list-moderation, that too can cause email storms. No one blames "the genius who decided to put everyone in one mailing list" when that happens.

The real fail here isn't putting everyone in one channel. The real fail is not using/providing proper admin tools

[_jal]

I'm going to guess you could also break IBM's phone system by attempting to start a conference call with 200K people on it, and destroy their auditorium by putting too many people on the stage.

[komali2]

We definitely blame the genius that didn't BCC an email with hundreds of individual emails (when a mailing list isn't used)