9 'reply all' email disasters

The recent Cornell email scandal may be the raunchiest in the history of CC snafus, but it certainly isn’t the first

Cornell University is tittering this week with the tale of the married Cornell University tech consultant who managed to CC the entire business school’s listserv on the X-rated email exchange he was having with his lover, a married colleague. (See the Cornell email exchange here – not suitable for work.) “It seems like a joke, but we assure you, this is real life,” says Guest of a Guest. “And it’s not pretty.”

Here, 8 more gaffes involving emails that were sent to many, but intended for few:

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