This is why sites like Digg only allow you to shout to 200 people at a time and banks have a limit on how much money you can take out of the ATM.

Olympic organizers say human error is to blame after an email meant for 80 prospective volunteers vying for positions at the 2010 Games was sent to 36,000 people instead.

Say what?

Now I have sent an email to the wrong person before because of the stupid auto-filler thingy but how do you add 35,920 extra people to an email and not notice?

Donna Wilson, of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee, said Monday that 4,000 people flooded a call centre to ask why they couldn’t sign up for a “learning session” as indicated in the email.

She said the spots had already been assigned and now the committee is examining the computer technology to ensure everything is triple-checked before emails go out in the future.

I would love to be at that meeting.

They have emailed an apology to everyone and that they understand people are disappointed by the mistake.

In a related story 67,000 people got an apology in their inbox that they have no idea what it is for.

Doh!

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