Spam on Corporate Networks
It’s amazing how people react when they receive spam (virus threats, phishing attempts, etc.) email messages that have been sent to the major distribution lists in the employee email directory. WOW 
!! I can’t help but laugh at all the folks that appear to be patrons of the infamous “short bus” when they reply-to-all and state:
- “Please remove me from your list”
- “What is this?”
- “Will you just stop!”
- “It is against corporate policy to click on ‘reply-to-all’ on spam messages” (yet this person did it themselves)
- My personal favorite that was sent late last night: “Obviously this was sent to everyone. Please don’t be a bunch of idiots and reply to all. Just use your little brains and ignore it!!”
I know they’re just being helpful, but it’s a numbers game and humans are followers. All those messages from people constantly replying, just slows down the network and will at times bring down a mail server. Then they wonder why everyone has limited storage on email servers :roll:. We got a spam message sent over the network at about 3:00 pm PST. By the end of the day, I have in total 200+ emails all from the short-bus riders clicking reply-to-all. I can’t even begin to count how many of those damn all employee emails I get reminding employees not to reply to those messages. I personally want to reply to the individual and kindly inform them that they need to pull their head out…
I have a co-worker who delights in emailing the managers of each and every one of the “reply to all” offenders, reminding the managers that their employee is breaking company policy. I’m beginning to think she’s onto something!
I was thinking that if we had an email from someone named “GOD” that said to stop replying to all that might work. But then I thought, no, someone would probably reply with “Who are you and why the hell are you emailing me?”
Kelli