As many as 11,543 Microsoft employees got swept up in a reply-all email apocalypse (MSFT)

Microsoft employees spent much of Thursday ensnared in a massive reply-all email thread, according to social-media posts from employees.
It started with a message sent to some 11,543 Microsoft employees registered to the company's GitHub account. 
The episode is especially delightful for longtime Microsoft employees: This is evocative of 1997's legendary Bedlam DL3 incident, in which a similar reply-all apocalypse actually took down Microsoft's internal email servers for days.It happens to