{"id":893,"date":"2014-05-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/05\/27\/only-senior-executives-can-send-email-to-the-all-employees-distribution-list-but-mistakes-still-happen\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T07:00:00","slug":"only-senior-executives-can-send-email-to-the-all-employees-distribution-list-but-mistakes-still-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140527-00\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Only senior executives can send email to the All Employees distribution list, but mistakes still happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, a senior executive sent email to the All Employees distribution list at Microsoft announcing that a particular product was now available for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2011\/08\/02\/10191834.aspx\"> dogfood<\/a>. The message included a brief introduction to the product and instructions on how to install it.\n A few hours later, a second message appeared in reply to the announcement. The second message came from a different senior executive, and it went<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> I got your note and tried it out. Looks good so far. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Oopsie. The second senior executive intended to reply just to the first senior executive, but hit the <i>Reply All<\/i> button by mistake. This would normally have been caught by the <i>You do not have permission to send mail to <u>All Employees<\/u><\/i> rule, but since the mistake was made by a senior executive, that rule did not apply, and the message went out to the entire company.\n People got a good chuckle out of this. At least he didn&#8217;t say anything embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: I&#8217;d have thought that these extra-large distribution lists would be marked <i>Nobody can send to this distribution list<\/i>, and then when somebody needed to send a message to the entire company, the email admins would create a one-day-only rule which allowed a specific individual to send one message. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, a senior executive sent email to the All Employees distribution list at Microsoft announcing that a particular product was now available for dogfood. The message included a brief introduction to the product and instructions on how to install it. A few hours later, a second message appeared in reply to the announcement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, a senior executive sent email to the All Employees distribution list at Microsoft announcing that a particular product was now available for dogfood. The message included a brief introduction to the product and instructions on how to install it. A few hours later, a second message appeared in reply to the announcement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}