Today we looked at the errors of promoting oneself on email, sparking a commenter to tell us a harrowing tale of a mass email gone wrong.

From SuperKarateMonkeyDeathCar:

In the middle of finals week, some not-too-bright engineering college staff member sent an email intended for 'women and minorities'. It got out to the entire college, and she accidentally revealed the very secret college-wide email list address.

So people started hitting 'reply to all' to get off the list (brightest and the best here, folks), other people hit 'reply to all' to bitch about other people replying to all and their email boxes being flooded during finals, someone made some vaguely racist/sexist comments, someone called them out on it, long philosophical statements were drafted, critical analysis of the sociology of the university were offered, personal data about the original email sender was dug up, an acquaintance of mine wrote a Dr. Seuss style poem summarizing the developments, etc...

Most of us were pulling all-nighters for finals the next day anyway so it was a great way to break up the time... and there was another round of emails in the morning from the lucky bastards who got to sleep through the night complaining about the hundreds (and there were *hundreds*) of emails in their inboxes.

It was glorious.

Oh, my point... really, it's *not* that hard to figure out how to avoid this. Or, you know, how to disable comments on your damn blog. You could even - I know, this is sounds crazy - just buy a domain name and design a personal page for your overly incitement musings and thoughts. Or don't, whatever.