Brain fart, in front of all the techs...

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

User emails us and asks why people keep telling him that replies to his emails bounce.

I take a look and he's accidentally set an alias to use firstname@domain.com as his From address instead of username@domain.com. No biggie -- I reply, cc-ing the list as per proceedure, and explain how he can fix it, but...

...wait for it...

... I forget to change the address in the reply and it bounces because I sent it to firstname@domain. Worse, the cc goes through and the whole list sees my boo boo.

*facepalm*

Comments

[scimon.livejournal.com]

Oooops.

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

If you're doing work in production, you'll eventually cock it up. No worries. :)

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Everybody eventually does something like that...

I killed our LAN's mail server once. See, I was doing a company-wide mail shot and made 2.5 errors, with a rather impressive result.

First mistake, I included my own address in the mailing list.
Second mistake, I pasted the list of addresses into the BCC, not CC and asked everyone to acknowledge receipt.
Third mistake, [well, not really a mistake] I left my usual "I'm not in my office" rule active... which does a 'reply all'...

Result, an infinite mail loop, with several hundred copies being added on each cycle... running all weekend.

Oy vey... it was looooong time before I was allowed to forget that one. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that they are still newbie techs about it, years after I've left.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. At least it's only a small brain fart :)

[canray.livejournal.com]

An honest mistake. You get the nerf bat, then get back to work. No biggie.