{"items": [{"author": "Maia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=683890455922", "anchor": "fb-683890455922", "service": "fb", "text": "Cool tactic! If only it helped diffuse the snark from people who really weren't supposed to see the first message...", "timestamp": "1409781821"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293044132", "anchor": "fb-684293044132", "service": "fb", "text": "This doesn't help much if you sent an email to so many people that it gets throttled, such that the delay between sending a followup email and people receiving it is too large. By the time people see the followup, lots and lots of people will likely have already replied-all, and then it's just a crapshoot which response people end up replying-all to.", "timestamp": "1409842000"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293383452", "anchor": "fb-684293383452", "service": "fb", "text": "Do people really still blindly chain-reply-all?  Of all the times I have seen people accidentally mass-mail, there has been maybe 1 unintentional compounding email.", "timestamp": "1409842204"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293667882", "anchor": "fb-684293667882", "service": "fb", "text": "Ben: it's the law of large numbers. If you email enough people, then even if only a tiny fraction percent of them actually reply, you're still guaranteed to get at least a few people replying, and at least a few of those will reply-all.", "timestamp": "1409842399"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293812592", "anchor": "fb-684293812592", "service": "fb", "text": "It might have helped that the one person who made the ironic mistake was publicly (and repeatedly) mocked for it in an office where everyone knew everyone.", "timestamp": "1409842505"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293847522", "anchor": "fb-684293847522", "service": "fb", "text": "Put another way, reply-all works basically the same as spam email. It only takes a few people (either replying all or wanting to actually buy v1agra from c@n@d@ pharmacies) to ruin the internet for everyone.", "timestamp": "1409842553"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293947322", "anchor": "fb-684293947322", "service": "fb", "text": "That makes sense, and makes me sad.", "timestamp": "1409842659"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684293962292", "anchor": "fb-684293962292", "service": "fb", "text": "@Alex: Theres a large range between \"too small to get many people replying-all\" and \"so big that email gets throttled\".", "timestamp": "1409842663"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684294336542", "anchor": "fb-684294336542", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jeff: I have yet to encounter that range I suppose :)", "timestamp": "1409842767"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/683885870112?comment_id=684298932332", "anchor": "fb-684298932332", "service": "fb", "text": "@Alex: Any google-internal mailing list over ~100 people is probably in that range.", "timestamp": "1409846248"}]}