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Email storm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia •On 18 March 2014, a Capgemini employee sent an internal mail to an erroneously generated mail group containing 47,212 members in 15 countries. The subsequent wave of over 500 reply-alls requesting removal from the list, asking for people to stop replying along with jokes in various languages. It lasted approximately 6 hours, involved more than 21 million emails, and generated an estimated 1.5 TB of traffic.
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A screenshot styled like a Wikipedia article describes an email storm caused by a Capgemini employee sending a message to 47,212 people. The joke is the absurd escalation: attempts to stop the replies created over 21 million emails and 1.5 TB of traffic, making it a fitting reaction to chaotic group emails and reply-all disasters.

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