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> The right thing to do, of course, is email the whole group asking them to stop emailing the whole group ....

It's also important to get to the bottom of how and why we were all added to this list, a discussion that is certainly appropriate for this list!

If reply all didn’t exists I think the world would be a better place. There are rare occasions it is needed, but in groups of 10+ is it really required? At a minimum an irritating series of “are you sure” dialogues might help.

Or you can reply to all to ask everyone to respect your wish to be removed from any further replies.

That's actually not a terrible idea, provided you BCC: them instead of TO:.