Would you like some irony with that?

In what started out as a simple e-mail error, Center sent out a reminder to its e-mail list about the deadline for this year’s Project Competition and Review Santa Fe, and in the process, left its e-mail list address as part of the Reply To line. Bottom line: A well-intentioned photographer who had missed the deadline tried to reply to Center and inquire about her application, only to have her e-mail message delivered to the entire mailing list. I saw this on Friday night, deleted the message, and didn’t think much of it.

On Saturday morning, however, over a dozen photographers had replied to the reply and on and on, saying things like, “You are sending this to the wrong people” and, “For some reason I have received two e-mails from you which appear to be directed to someone else,” and “Yes, me too. Not quite sure why we’re getting all these e-mails? I worry that they are not getting to the right people.”

The most recent message, at least as of the moment I started this post (four more have come in since I started typing) said, “Please do not reply to these messages. You are just continuing the strand of e-mails.”

Oh, the irony of it all.