A while back I was chatting with
Trisha – one of my Microsoft buddies. She was telling me about a time at Microsoft before she was hired, a time known as “Bedlam”. E-mail was out for days and people flipped out. The story was interesting enough that she searched out the actual history and found this
link to the MS Ecxchange team blog for me. It tells about how, during testing, some developer set up a distribution list with lots of people on it. Someone sent it an e-mail and the ensuing round of “Me Too!” e-mails brought down Exchange for days. It’s a fun read and even more fun to read the comments to see how others have suffered similar fates.