Appears the Deparment of Homeland Security needs Jack Bauer! He could come and pound silly the person who originally sent out an email to 7500 people and didn’t put their addresses in the BCC field. Put their head inside a running server (very hot and noisy) and get them to confess they were trying to get email addresses to the Iranians!
This started an email cascade explostion of 2 million emails.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9040878&intsrc=hm_list
I send out emails monthly for our club and the Austin chapter sends me their newsletter with all the people in the CC field despite being me repeatedly asking for them to use the blind copy field instead.
It is a natural reaction to hit ‘reply all’. So it is the fault of the person who sent the original email they replied to IMHO.
