What is an e-mail storm?
Email storm is a situation where people are starting to beat "answer everything" to the e-mail messages sent to the group, causing a dramatic increase in the number of messages processed by the server and leaving the individuals loaded in the boxes. While e-mail storm can be the topic of humor or irritation, it may also potentially pose a problem, as servers can be so overloaded that the Flood E-mail effectively creates an attack by rejecting the service and turns on the server. For this reason, steps are usually taken to prevent e-mail storms. People can send messages to everyone on the service with important information or correspondence, and individuals on the list can read these messages, answer the sender, or choose to answer everyone and send a message to everyone on the list. People can accidentally intervene "answer everything" and run an e-mail storm as an angry subscriber to answer to inform them that they did not have to send a message to everyone and announce fiery emails.
This may also happen when a controversial matter appears and everyone wants to consider duty. Rather than send messages to individual people and perform a private conversation, people start to match everyone and create an e-mail storm. People who are not interested in the discussion can also send messages to everyone and ask people to stop e-mail the entire service. When the service includes hundreds or thousands of subscribers, the server can back up quickly.
During an e-mail storm, processing other messages on the server can slow down. Individual people caught up in a storm may have difficulty accessing their post office and it may take a long time to load the news. Messages unrelated to a storm can be hidden under a bunch of new messages from an e-mail storm, making people difficult to find correspondence they need to see and respond.
In 2009, in fact, it resulted in an e-mail storm at the US Foreign Ministry to the threats of disciplinary controlledí, while the officials warned that storms endangered servers and potentially exposed the names of officials who work intimately. The workers were warned to use the option to "answer all" with caution, and direct messages to a whole group of people on an e-mail distribution list if it was really necessary.