Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Try this for bureaucracy gone barmy.
I got an email today from the Supplies Manager of an NHS Trust. We supply them poster frames. The sender had copied in all 678 of his other suppliers so there, for my edification, were the email addresses of all their suppliers. Interesting, but not especially discreet.
So what was the email about? He was writing to stress the high importance the authority attaches to Data Protection and the meticulous standards all suppliers are required to observe at all times - with the threat of contract termination to any offenders.
In my day (oh here he goes again), before email was ever conceived, people knew what a blind carbon copy was. Today few people seem to be aware what Bcc means in Outlook.
Now ... what shall I send to my newly aquired mailing list? Umm? A little spam maybe? Or will I receive all the other guys' spam first, because they've all got my email address too!
