Oregon lawyers have a list, and Willamette Law School's on the "naughty" side of it

Willamette Law School sent out an e-mail today to a list that it had compiled, mostly of lawyers, to advertise a program of continuing education that it plans to present in December.  Apparently most of the people on the list had no idea that they were on the list.  Well over 100 of them sent back an "unsubscribe" message -- to the list.  As lawyers' inboxes filled up this afternoon, the messages in response got more vituperative.  Dozens of messages complained about people hitting "reply to all" and were in turn sent to the entire list.  Mixed in with the angry messages were some laced with humor, in particular one from a Portland tax attorney (let's call him "Mr. K.") that started with "Every one of you who wrote 'me too,' or words to that effect, should hire a lawyer before ever hitting the 'Send' button again."  Mr. K. pointed out that the lawyers who demanded to be removed from any and all lists (as some did) were making that demand not only on the hapless soul at Willamette who touched all this off, but also on everyone else who received the message.  Some of those people, Mr. K. noted, might want to remain on some of those lists, as for example his list of lawyers to whom he refers work, and Santa's list of good little boys and girls.  After Mr. K.'s bit of good humor, tempers seemed to subside, maybe because we're getting close to Christmas.  I don't know that his message would have been as effective if this had happened in April.