• Uber (unregistered) in reply to John Doe
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    Go where? I searched it at google maps and all I could find was this:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=start&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=45.284089,81.386719&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1

    "Start Uninc Richland Parish, LA"

    But that's too far away just to be removed from the forum... I'll better stick in.

    CP: smile... it's funny that people are so OS dependant.

  • unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- (unregistered) in reply to Cats
    Cats:
    Nubis:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    CAPTCHA

    Frist!1one ...Oh, crap.

    Uh, me too.

    unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here--- unsubscribe worsethanfailure ---To Here---

  • FR1ST!!111~11four (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that they used VB.

  • James (unregistered) in reply to infi
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

  • (cs) in reply to James
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

  • (cs) in reply to Troy Mclure

    STOP REPLYING TO ALL !!!

  • ZZZ, All Staff (unregistered)

    My favorite mailing list flame war happened a while back, at a very large international media conglomerate...

    Not far short of a decade ago, one of my friends graduated from college. As a typical young person with an arts major, but no particular skills barring a tendency to drunkenness, he naturally decided to move to the big city and enter the action-packed world of publishing. This being his first job in the real world, he didn't have much idea about the world of big business, but this was fortunately a small, sleepy London outpost of the multinational mother ship.

    Within a couple of weeks he was getting used to this work lark, and it wasn't too bad. They even paid him a small sum each month, he could make free phone calls, and no-one seemed to mind too much if he spent much of the day sending messages to his friends on the new email system. Soon management spotted the potential of this neophyte, and handed him some important responsibilities. Yes, the keys to the stationery closet.

    Alas, not many days later, it seemed like there might be a small wrinkle in our chum's rise to ever greater corporate success. He had lost the key. Yikes! But perhaps someone might have borrowed the key and forgotten to return it? Being full of initiative, it seemed like it would be much more efficient to send one of these email things around, than to ask all 60 people in the London office if they had the key.

    "Hi there,

    Just wondering if anyone knows where the key to the stationery closet is? Is seem to have lost it. Can you have a look?

    Cheers,

    #######"

    Hmm, now there must be an address for the whole office. Surely it must be somewhere, keep scrolling, and some more. Ah, here we are, "ZZZ, All Staff" should do the trick, wonder why they put it at the end of the list when it would be so useful.

    I'm sure you've guessed what happened next. Yes, 25,000 messages sent flooding out across the globe from London to LA, Singapore to Sydney, newsrooms and studios, wood-paneled offices and warehouses, vice presidents and VT editors. However, our young friend wasn't to know this, as the anemic cc:Mail gateway had given up the ghost after sending out most of his messages informing the world of the lost key.

    Fortunately, in the meantime, he'd also found the key. It had fallen down the side of his desk. Whew!

    "Hi there,

    Don't worry everybody, I've found the key.

    Cheers!

    #######"

    It only took a few days for the email firestorm to end. Surprisingly, my friend kept his job, and was still with the company until earlier this year.

  • (cs) in reply to BLs
    BLs:
    I saw this as Citigroup once too... the worst one wasn't due to LISTSERV. It was started by some guy that got a spam e-mail that told him he could get a free something or other if he sent the e-mail to 20 people. Thinking he was real smart he forwarded the e-mail to the entire public address book. Keep in mind Citigroup has >250,000 employees... if the e-mail had been real he would have been a real jackpot winner!!!!

    In that case, the chain-reaction wasn't caused by people hitting reply, but because people hit "reply to all" and then asked the sender not to send them spam. Eventually the whole e-mail system went down.

    And did the employee with such poor judgment get terminated? Total incompetence seems like a good reason to fire someone.

  • (cs)

    Related to the out of office bounce, I was a member of an AS/400 mailing list that wasn't too smart. Now when you sent a message to the single address of the list, the list server duplicated the message and sent it to everyone. No need to CC.

    Of course once every few months someone would go out of town, and set an auto responder, I'm out of the office til such and such. I bet you can imagine what happened. Someone innocently sent a message to the list. Which got sent to everyone on the list. The auto responder replied, I'm out of the office, which got sent to everyone in the list, which the auto reponder responded to...

    There would be hundreds of messages a minute until the list maintainer cmae into the office, noticed what was going on and temporarily blocking his email address. Usually e-mail would be useless to everyone on the list unless they also blocked the list e-mail address.

    That wsa in the late 80's, early 90's. I wonder if they've made it smarter by now.

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to John Doe
    John Doe:
    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet: 1. Go to Start -> Run... 2. Type in "cmd"
    My computer doesn't have a "Start" but it does have this sort of foot-shaped thingy. Anyway I hit Shift-F2 and typed "cmd" in the box and got: 
    Could not open location 'file:///cmd'

Details: The location or file could not be found.
    John Doe:
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:\"

    Says "> " and wants me to type some more. It hit Enter and it says 

    bash: cd: c:: No such file or directory

    John Doe:
    4. Type in "del *.* /s /q" 
    bash: del: command not found
    John Doe:
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    bash: format: command not found
    and it didn't ask me any questions.
    John Doe:
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives. 7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    I did, and the screen went black, and I couldn't play Quake any more. Was I supposed to turn it back on again? AND I'M STILL SUBSCRIBED TO THIS DAMN FORUM!

    John Doe:
    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    Bastard.

  • Clayton (unregistered) in reply to Worf

    That's quite an unfortunate url.

  • Clayton (unregistered) in reply to Clayton
    Clayton:
    That's quite an unfortunate url.

    err, in response to msexchangeteam.com

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to ZZZ, All Staff
    ZZZ:
    It only took a few days for the email firestorm to end. Surprisingly, my friend kept his job, and was still with the company until earlier this year.

    ...until his bastard friend started ratting him out on public website forums? ;-)

  • (cs) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    It happened to Microsoft as well - see the MS Exchange team.

    Brought down Microsoft's email system (yes, they ran Exchange, but it melted down from all the traffic!).

    http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/04/08/109626.aspx

    Captcha: yummy

    I read that URL as M Sex-Change Team. I find this offensive and I demand to be removed from this forum immediately.

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to Pap
    Pap:
    And did the employee with such poor judgment get terminated? Total incompetence seems like a good reason to fire someone.

    I once saw one of these firestorms end with someone fairly high up in the IT management hierarchy posted a message saying "the next idiot who posts an email to everyone on the company-wide list will be fired." I'm paraphrasing slightly, but "disciplinary measures" were mentioned explicitly, "termination" was strongly alluded to, and "prosecution" was not ruled out.

    It seemed to work--there were maybe half a dozen more mails over the next hour, then the whole thing went silent. None of these came from anyone I knew or anyone in the local office (this was a multinational corporation with 80,000 employees), so I don't know if anyone actually went home unexpectedly early that day.

  • Raw (unregistered)

    Well, at least most of the people didn't have autoresponders set up on their mail accounts to notify everyone that they are away on holiday. That can really, really eff up mailing lists once the listserver and the client mailserver starts pingponging until one of them goes down.

  • (cs) in reply to Troy Mclure
    Troy Mclure:
    This either happened at my company or is a fairly typical experience.

    By the 10th reponse, you get: "Don't you realize by replying all you're cc'ing every single person on this list?" The funny thing being that they cc'd everyone just to tell them not to cc everyone.

    It happens probably once every six months but it spreads like wildfire. Great entertainment.

    The thing is that if they read the oldest mails first, they'll send their "DON'T CC EVERYONE" mail to everybody before they realize that there are already 20 such mails at the bottom.

  • dkf (unregistered) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    This is late, but... the M Sex Change Team?
    You only just noticed?
  • (cs)

    frist?

  • Tei (unregistered) in reply to EricJ2190
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

  • (cs)

    This happened in my company some times. Since the last time, when obviously management was also hit by several "Don't use reply to all" mails, you need approval from the IT department before you can send mail to more than 100 recipients at once.

  • seamus (unregistered) in reply to Mankynd
    Mankynd:
    Had almost the exact same thing happen at a company I worked at. (~1200 people)

    Unfortunately, the initial sender had attached a 20mb .avi file to the original email.

    And yes. Everyone that 'replied all' had the attachment resent as well.

    Similar thing here. Started working in a place where somehow email had usurped network storage as a means for sharing files. Someone would email a 10MB excel sheet to the guy beside them, that guy would edit it and send it back and the original owner would overwrite the copy on their desktop.

    I moved everyone over to exchange, gave a mailbox limit of 100MB and about three days later, someone attempted to email a 90MB video to everyone in her department and everyone in marketing. Aside from bringing about 15 machines to a crawl, some users who had no mailbox limits (high-management) had decided to forward this onto others and even some attempts to send it outside of the company.

    In the space of about an hour, 30 people had completely full mailboxes and all senders to them were getting NDRs. It took the rest of the day to sort because they didn't understand the concept of the deleted items folder. They'd delete the mail and spend the next half hour attempting to send that 10MB excel sheet only to have it bounce back. Then I'd have to log into their mailbox myself and remove the mail.

    A couple of clients were unhappy that we had managed to clog their mail systems too. It was my first foray into Exchange, so I had "missed" the outgoing size limit setting and our mail service provider hadn't set one either.

    (And eventually I got a 1TB SAN in and most people figured out how to use network storage and mapped drives).

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is an out of office agent replying to all recipients, instead of the original sender, only once.

    Poorly designed mail systems like these just ask to be brought down.

  • Tei (unregistered)

    I am a average guy. But I on some mail list I feel like I am the next novel prize of something. I have see the WTF like more than 3 times.

  • Tei (unregistered) in reply to Tei
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    REMOVE MY MESSAGE NOW OR I WILL SUE. MY MESSAGE WHAS NOT INTENDED TO PUBLIC VIEW. AND YOU ARE BREAKING TONS OF LAWS JUST NOW. I AM GOING YO SUE SUE SUEEEESSUE YOUUUU!!!!!!!!!!

    calls lawyer

  • Maarten (unregistered) in reply to Tei
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    You're slowing it down by replying, please don't and also REMOVE ME!!!!!11!!1!1!!

  • (cs)

    I've been hit by e-mail storms a few times, once when somebody decided it'd be fun to subscribe everybody at a local ISP who decided to have their homepage listed in a directory (which automatically included an e-mail address) to a mailing list.

    Also, many out-of-office responders are still dumb, and post to mailing lists (because it's so hard to look in the headers for Precedence: list or Precedence: bulk, or even the various List headers). Most of them also respond to every message, instead of limiting themselves to responding eg. once.

    I'm more annoyed by mail servers that send bounces to the From address from the e-mail message instead of using the envelope headers - this way, instead of bouncing the message to the listserv (which would automatically suspend the account and fix the problem), everybody who posts to the list gets a bounce they can't do anything about.

  • Ch0 (unregistered) in reply to Anon Fred
    Anon Fred:
    Those were the only members of the bozo-users list; it had no other purpose besides getting all these people to annoy each other with their remove requests.

    Removing yourself was very simple if you just read the message headers, but these folks couldn't be bothered with that.

    That is an absolutely amazing idea. I think I am not BOFH enough that I didn't think of it but will implement it forthwith wherever appropriate.

  • Alex (unregistered)

    Whoops. Can I recall this message?

    The bozo list is, indeed, a cracking idea.

    Now can I be removed from this interweb?

  • Paula's Boyfriend (unregistered) in reply to Zygo
    Zygo:
    John Doe:
    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet: 1. Go to Start -> Run... 2. Type in "cmd"
    My computer doesn't have a "Start" but it does have this sort of foot-shaped thingy. Anyway I hit Shift-F2 and typed "cmd" in the box and got: 
    Could not open location 'file:///cmd'

Details: The location or file could not be found.
    John Doe:
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:\"

    Says "> " and wants me to type some more. It hit Enter and it says 

    bash: cd: c:: No such file or directory

    John Doe:
    4. Type in "del *.* /s /q" 
    bash: del: command not found
    John Doe:
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    bash: format: command not found
    and it didn't ask me any questions.
    John Doe:
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives. 7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    I did, and the screen went black, and I couldn't play Quake any more. Was I supposed to turn it back on again? AND I'M STILL SUBSCRIBED TO THIS DAMN FORUM!

    John Doe:
    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    Bastard.

    I swear all Distros should have del included. in accordance with the GPL, code is supplied here for easy reference:

    #include <iostream>
int main()
{
    std::cout << "RTFM\n";
    return 0;
}

    Oh, and REMOVE ME FROM THIS DAMN FORUM.

  • Cope with IT (unregistered) in reply to CATS
    CATS:
    STOP REPLYING TO ALL YOU DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING!!!!
    But I'd like to do something...
  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Maarten
    Maarten:
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    You're slowing it down by replying, please don't and also REMOVE ME!!!!!11!!1!1!!

    Stop doing this, you will hit the quote nesting limit!

  • Cope with IT (unregistered) in reply to mudkip
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Is this going to remove me ("REMOVE in the subject.") I somewhat doubt it...

  • Keith Hackney (unregistered)

    Can we stop this now? The comments section is the best bit of the forum and this thread has been totally ruined by people doing the same joke over and over.

    Please remove me.

  • Cope with IT (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    Maarten:
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    You're slowing it down by replying, please don't and also REMOVE ME!!!!!11!!1!1!!

    Stop doing this, you will hit the quote nesting limit!

    Are we? Let's see...

  • John Doe (unregistered) in reply to Zygo
    Zygo:
    I did, and the screen went black, and I couldn't play Quake any more. Was I supposed to turn it back on again? AND I'M STILL SUBSCRIBED TO THIS DAMN FORUM!
    You must have done something wrong. Installing the wrong OS, for example. These steps work perfectly.
    Zygo:
    John Doe:
    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    Bastard.

    Thanks for the great feedback!

    By the way, are there new captcha's? I've never seen "facilisi" before, nor a clue what it could mean...

  • p (unregistered) in reply to Cope with IT

    Subscribe

  • johnny fiberdick (unregistered) in reply to Cope with IT

    I will be out of the office until Monday and will not have access to email. If you need immediate help, too bad so sad.

  • johnny fiberdick (unregistered) in reply to Cope with IT
    Cope with IT:
    AdT:
    Maarten:
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    You're slowing it down by replying, please don't and also REMOVE ME!!!!!11!!1!1!!

    Stop doing this, you will hit the quote nesting limit!

    Are we? Let's see...

    I will be out of the office until Monday and will not have access to email. If the matter is urgent, you are just screwed.

  • Dennis (unregistered) in reply to Jim

    Back when I was in college, one of my friends used 'net send' to send a message out to the entire domain with "Go [school mascot]!" A few minutes later a system admin came into the lab we were working again and asked him what would make him do such a thing, to which my friend replied "School spirit". We must have laughed for 15-20 minutes after the admin left.

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to jon787
    jon787:
    There are bonus points if they quote the original message, but only if it contained unsubscription information at the bottom.

    They should have used a printed form which is then scanned and inserted as a TIFF where they actually ask tu unsubscribe. We had once a secretary who send out picture from the companies Xmas party. 60 Meg times 1000 persons. Poor Exchange exploded, but the secretary did not get fired (good relations with the boss)

  • Cloak (unregistered) in reply to jon787
    jon787:
    There are bonus points if they quote the original message, but only if it contained unsubscription information at the bottom.

    They should have used a printed form which is then scanned and inserted as a TIFF where they actually ask tu unsubscribe. We had once a secretary who send out picture from the companies Xmas party. 60 Meg times 1000 persons. Poor Exchange exploded, but the secretary did not get fired (good relations with the boss)

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Did anyone else notice how bad the English was in those excerpts?

    "STOP THIS!

    It's good to know, that you guys wanna be removed from the distr. list BUT please don't copy all other on this (I already received 10ths of mails...)."

    "10ths" of "mails"? "It is good to know COMMA"? "...please don't copy all other on this"?

    No wonder they have communication problems.

  • Christopher (unregistered) in reply to johnny fiberdick
    johnny fiberdick:
    Cope with IT:
    AdT:
    Maarten:
    Tei:
    EricJ2190:
    James:
    infi:
    Ben Olive:
    mudkip:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    Blah blah blah am I removed yet?

    Don't you realize that by quoting this message, you are replying to the whole forum?!

    TL:DR

    No quack

    FYI

    This chat is too slow.

    You're slowing it down by replying, please don't and also REMOVE ME!!!!!11!!1!1!!

    Stop doing this, you will hit the quote nesting limit!

    Are we? Let's see...

    I will be out of the office until Monday and will not have access to email. If the matter is urgent, you are just screwed.

    No nesting limit hit? I refuse to use such forum software that doesn't do this. REMOVE ME IMMEDIATELY

  • Jason (unregistered)

    I survived Bedlam DL 3.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Just thinking about all those retards using computers when they shouldn't even be allowed to have a calculator makes me want to puke.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    This is the first WTF that made me laugh out loud in a while.

    The last line really got me good =D

  • Galactic (unregistered) in reply to AC
    AC:
    annc:
    Jason:
    anonymoose:
    John Doe:
    Foo:
    Troy Mclure:
    Eduardo Habkost:
    AOL:
    ShadowMind:
    Please remove me from this forum
    me too

    I'm not sure how I got on this forum, please remove.

    Stop replying all to be removed from this forum

    Here are the instructions to remove you from all forums, e-mail lists, even the whole internet:

    1. Go to Start -> Run...
    2. Type in "cmd"
    3. In the DOS box type "cd c:"
    4. Type in "del . /s /q"
    5. When it is done, type in: "format c:" and answer "yes" to all questions.
    6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all of your other drives.
    7. Turn off the computer and have a nice day. :)

    p.s. I accept no liability for any damages caused by these instructions to your computer.

    STOP POST THE FORUM!!!!!!!! - YOU BLOCK THE THREAD!!!

    WHY DID I GET THIS MESSAGE. I'M NOT PART OF THIS GROUP

    To remove yourself from this running joke, reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject.

    REMOVE

    REMOVE

  • Galactic (unregistered)

    IT DID NOT WORK I'M STILL GETTING MESSAGES FROM THIS FORUM!! REMOVE ME! REMOVE ME! PLEEEEEEEASE REMOVE ME!

  • HipShot (unregistered) in reply to Galactic

    Try this:

    debug g=c800:5

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