Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Here's What Happens When 40,000 College Students Realize They Can E-Mail All 40,000 People at Once

NYU recently sent out a seemingly innocuous e-mail to all of its students asking them to opt for paperless forms. People in college get those kinds of e-mails all the time! But when one student decided to ask his mom if he should enable the paperless forms, he accidentally triggered a method that allowed him (and every other student) to reply all to all 39,979 students on the e-mail list. Which meant, any student could send an e-mail to every single student at NYU. And as things in college goes, things quickly got out of hand. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/moPbQgrdyFI/heres-what-happens-when-40000-college-students-realize-they-can-e+mail-all-40000-people-at-once

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