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[–] towerful@programming.dev 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was working for an international company that was very modular.
At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of "we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact...".

The event update was in English.

The mail system was down for about an hour.

After the initial rush, I'm pretty sure there were also "we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact..."