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RTarlinton.bsky.social
@rtarlinton.bsky.social

A classic "reply all" hell loop this morning at Notts where a student has accidentally emailed a distribution list with 2400 academics. So far there around 15 people asking to be removed off the email chain, several puzzled as they don't teach practicals and at least one claiming to be Spartacus...

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RTarlinton.bsky.social
@rtarlinton.bsky.social

It continued all day - multiple people weighing in to tell people not to "reply all" (while replying all). Someone suspicious that it might be a phishing attack, someone who actually sorted out the poor students problem, IT weighing in to tell us they were sorting it.

RTarlinton.bsky.social
@rtarlinton.bsky.social

And the final glory was an extensive (satirical) proposal suggesting that the university should form a new field of academic endeavour in "Recursive Institutional Communication Compliance Paradox Syndrome (RICCPS)". written in true university management speak style...