(CNN) -- You can say goodbye to "Reply All" emails. Microsoft has a solution to the problem that has annoyed workplaces for decades.
The tech giant now lets customers detect and stop "Reply All Email Storms."
People who have mistakenly sent replies to everyone who was CC'ed on an email resulted in overstuffed inboxes with emails that aren't necessary. It can also slow down servers.
Microsoft said that blocking these email chains will help benefit big organizations.
"Over time, as we gather usage telemetry and customer feedback, we expect to tweak, fine-tune, and enhance the Reply All Storm Protection feature to make it even more valuable to a broader range of Office 365 customers," said Microsoft.
The company says the idea came from a 1997 incident at Microsoft when an employee asked to be taken off an email list and sent it to 13,000 others.
Many people responded with "Me too," resulting in 15 million generated messages and causing Microsoft's servers to slow to a crawl.