E-mail for Dummies

I know you guys totally love reading my rants about work, so here's another one.

How come people with college degrees cannot learn when it is and isn't appropriate to use the "Reply to All" button?

Dude, I know the only way to get in the door at this place is to start here as a temp or to have a college degree. (Seriously, I have a story about that too, it's a good one.) So how is it, that these seemingly educated people cannot figure out that it is NOT A GOOD IDEA to hit reply to all when someone has sent an e-mail to THE ENTIRE COMPANY, or the ENTIRE US division of the company?

5,000 people work for this company. Do you think that we ALL need to know which session you want to attend to learn about how to use expense reporting? No, no, we don't.

The people that REALLY crack me up, though... are the people who reply to all asking everyone not to reply to all. You can also prevent people from replying to all by BCCing everyone you send the message to. That way even if people DO hit reply to all, they're only going to be able to send it to you- and themselves.

The icing on the cake, however, in this most recent situation, was the response e-mail from the initial sender of the e-mail. I have to paste it in here, because it's really too amusing not to share.

Below is the actual text of the e-mail sent to the entire United States division of my company:

Not only am I sitting under an avalanche of RSVP's but now I am under attack with IM's and emails similar to this...
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T-
Could you please instruct these people to respond ONLY to you and not to the whole (company name here) world. I get enough emails without getting the people telling me that they want to take your concur class. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that they are wanting to take the class, but I don't need to know about it!
Thanks much.
*** Name witheld ***
Help !!!! Show some LOVE !!!

Seriously.

Maybe someone should teach a class on how to use your e-mail.