09/01/2021

How to Handle the Dreaded ‘Reply All Moment’

Five ways to avoid them

You know what the English language needs? A word for the hot, sickening feeling you get when you accidentally hit “Reply All,” subsequently broadcasting a private message to a much larger group. Maybe we should call it e-barrassment. Or forwardboding. Or Sents insensibility.

In any case, we asked you to share your best (or worst) Reply All horror stories and how you handled them with us by email or Twitter — and wow, did you come through. Clearly, people who’ve committed this act never forget it.

"Okay, so I was online dating a lot," Shirley Goldberg remembered. After each date, she liked to send a summary to her girlfriend. "On the day I hit 'Reply to All,' I had four emails open, one of them directed to the entire staff of my school. Somehow I got the emails mixed up.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The New York Times.