Ever hit 'Reply' instead of 'Forward'???

[SC Minnie]

Last night DH asked me what I thought about this email from the man in our church he forwarded to me at work. I said-- what email???

DH does not care for this man and I think the feeling are mutual (can you see where this is going?). This man sent out a mass email asking that people send a birthday card to his wife for her 50th bd (he wanted her to receive 50 cards). This man rarely even acknowledges us at church-- especially dh. This man was the church treasurer and dh was on the finance committe. This man was a 'free spender' and dh is not therefore they didn't get along.

Back to the email. Dh tells me he forwarded me this email that said 'can you believe this sob sent this to me?'

I never got it. He hit reply instead of forward.

 

[eeyore kelly]

You gotta hate it when that happens.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Dh has done that. So far, I have not.

 

[Jennifer S]

ooopppss. I wonder what will happen when they see each other next. I have not done that - yet.

 

[Tinks]

Oh My!

No, I have never done that. After this story, I'll be extra viligant too!

 

[rcyannacci]

My rule is to never say anything over email that I wouldn't say in a crowed room, and it's kept me out of trouble so far.

I mistake I keep making is receiving emails from a list-serve that goes to a number of people, hitting reply and sending my message to the whole list instead of just the person who sent it.

 

[auntpolly]

Sorry - you don't mind us laughing at your husband's expense, do you?

Tell him he brightened my day with his mistake, anyway, so it wasn't a total blow out!!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I've never done that (at least not that I know of ), but I can sure see that it would be easy to do. What I've had others do is to hit "reply all", when they mean to only reply to the sender. That gets a bit annoying when they are replying to a mass mailing when the original sender didn't do BCCs.

Your DH must be wanting to crawl under a rock! Oops!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Haven't done it, but I'll add to the group with Reply to All stories.

It's the worst invention ever created!! At one of my companies, it literally brought our e-mail servers to it's knees when one person inadvertantly sent an e-mail to "All Employees" (this was a firm of 25,000 consultants).

That wasn't the problem -- the problem was the 75 subsequent e-mails where people hit "Reply to All" to complain about getting the e-mail and asking to be removed from the mailing list.

And the 150 e-mails from people hitting "Reply to All" to tell the people sending those e-mails not to hit "Reply to All"

 

[snoopy]

I have a PG-13 rated story about a funny Reply to All mishap that happened a few years ago at work. Lets see if I can try and make it PG.

One of the guys I worked with was relatively new to this country, and English was not his first language. One day we received an email from our CEO, asking our team specifically for our feedback on an ad campaign they were considering. He copied his senior management team, and addressed it to the 20 or so members of our team. One team member replied with some of his ideas. The foreign guy replied back to him, as well as the CEO and the entire senior leader team, by quoting him. He was in full agreement with what his team member said, and wanted to convey that by writing simply "Ditto". Instead, he mixed up the English word for "ditto" and typed, uhhhh, well replace the itt in Ditto with ild. So when the CEO and senior leader team (as well as our entire team) got in the next moring, there it was, the one word reply of that word. OMG, that poor guy, he had no idea. I was the first one in the morning and I fell off my chair I was laughing so hard, once I got over the shock and realized what he was trying to say. Fortunately, he was very well loved by everyone from the CEO right on down to the mailclerk, so we all let it go (but not without a lot of teasing over the years. )

 

[SC Minnie]

Haven't done it, but I'll add to the group with Reply to All stories.

It's the worst invention ever created!! At one of my companies, it literally brought our e-mail servers to it's knees when one person inadvertantly sent an e-mail to "All Employees" (this was a firm of 25,000 consultants).

That wasn't the problem -- the problem was the 75 subsequent e-mails where people hit "Reply to All" to complain about getting the e-mail and asking to be removed from the mailing list.

And the 150 e-mails from people hitting "Reply to All" to tell the people sending those e-mails not to hit "Reply to All"

We had the same thing happen here last month. This guy sent one of those chain emails to All Users--we have over 50,000 employees. For 2 weeks people kept replying to all to be taken off the list.

I asked DH what he was going to do about his mistake and he said 'nothing, there is no love lost anyway'. How can men just get over things????

 

[jennyl772003]

I tried sending an email to my Dh once by choosing it out of my address list by typing the first couple letters of his name (Josh). I accidently chose one of my bosses names from the list (John). I was lucky that it wasn't anything weird or personal. I always try to be careful.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I have a PG-13 rated story about a funny Reply to All mishap that happened a few years ago at work. Lets see if I can try and make it PG.

OMG, Snoopy, that is so funny. Much more than a dibby-dab funny!!!

 

[LadyyRedd]

Once an ex-bf and I were having a 'heated discussion' via email. I forwarded one to my friend to make a comment. Apparently her mail program brought his email in as an attachment that she had to open to read, instead of inline text. So she did and replied back to me with some not so nice words about it. Problem was, she replied back to the attachment instead of the original email. Guess who the attachment reply went to......Yep, my ex. Boy, did he have a lot to say about that! LOL

Kimya

 

[TLHB70]

Oh yes. I JUST had this happen to me last week. One of my friends sent me an email that I found basically rude. She didn't direct the rude comments to me. She just said some pretty rude statements, voicing her opinion on some issues, in general. I replied to her to tell her how I felt about the topic. No, I didn't say anything ugly; I just expressed my opinion just like she had done. Well, that set her off and she replied in a snappy email to me. Then I basically replied in a snappy email to her. My DH doesn't like her; he never has. She never wanted DH and I to date. He called her when he and I first met (since she and I lived together in college) so that he could get info on me....hobbies, favorite flower, etc. She told him on that phone call not to ask me out because she was hoping I would get together with her BF's friend. Needless to say, my man didn't like that, and he hasn't cared for her ever since. She does say things very bluntly. Anyway, I forwarded those emails to my DH so that he could see how she blasted me. I put a few comments on top to explain what was going on. Well, you can guess what happened. For the second one I did hit "reply" instead of "forward." I did realize it as soon as I hit "send", but by then it was too late. Yep; she got it. She, of course, replied to me with an even uglier email. It hasn't been pretty.

 

[Sparx]

I've never done that, but I've hit forward instead of reply. never the other way around.

 

[WeirdEyes]

Hasn't happened to me....yet! And I hope it never does. Your poor DH!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

A co-worker did that - but she was talking about ME! Her exact words were: "Is she stupid or what."

I sent her email back to her with the message, "I think you sent this to the wrong person." (I would have liked to have seen her face when she realized she had sent it back to me instead of forwarding it.)

I marched over to her cubicle, and hauled off & smacked her one, I was so mad.


Naw, j/k. I ended up having her come to my office and we had it out - in a decent way. We're friends today.

 

[doxdogy]

I did what you did with my daughter. Thought I had selected her name and sent it to all the station commanders. Thankfully it just said good morning and how are you today. I did get replies asking why in the world I was asking them how they were doing.

I tried sending an email to my Dh once by choosing it out of my address list by typing the first couple letters of his name (Josh). I accidently chose one of my bosses names from the list (John). I was lucky that it wasn't anything weird or personal. I always try to be careful.

 

[raammartin]

A coworker did this once. She had people from computer services scrambling to get it deleted from this other coworker's email. 'Twas quite humerous.