Why not just have an easy button that you can click saying Do Not Allow Reply All?

I know that there are some ways you can limit reply-all availability, like in the URL linked here. But there’s a note: If recipients open this email in other mail applications except Microsoft Outlook, such as opening on web page via web mailbox, they can reply all this email.

I’m semi-tech savvy but I’m no programmer. It feels like it should be easy to do, so either I’m totally wrong or email services are really missing out on a great thing they could do.

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      1 month ago

      Why? BCC is the solution and has been part of email since at least 1990. I’m not condoning a dogpile on OP, but this is a solved problem.

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        This is the answer, bbc is the solution.

        To get less “tech inclined” people to use the bbc feature is another story.

        Sending a email to the whole office from HR, bbc all recipients. Then recipients can only reply to HR, and not 600 plus staff members, into a email chain that last all day asking people to stop replying all, while replying all at the same time.

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          So are you directly supplying the bbc or did you hire someone?

          What’s so technical about working with a bbc? I mean they’re big but not that different from a regular c.

          You want to bbc over 600 people? You’re going to need people working in shifts. I don’t think it could be done all at once.

          You want the bbcs to last all day? Jesus that’s a hell of an ask. I hope you’re hiring professionals.

          What’s email got to do with bbc?

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        1 month ago

        Better than BCC is using a Distribution List with restrictions on who can send to it. Helps see who else got the email, without blowing up with reply-all emails. Obviously this only works in a corporate environment where distribution lists can be restricted.