Email 'Punt' Button

An email option for companies or organizations whose memebers frequently send each other stuff with a long list of recipients, and whose email is all stored on a server that can be gotten at by a common email program. It might be possible with downloaded email via some kind of synchronization routine, but.

Often, a lot of the people on the 'To:' list of a mass email cannot, or do not want to, respond to the email - for example, the sender thought one of these people might have the answer to a question, and most of them don't. Or something needs doing by whoever has time, and they're busy. Or they're only getting sent the email to keep them 'in the loop' about a project they're working on other parts of, and really should have been 'CC'ed instead.

To simultaineously spare the senders the humiliation and despair of having NONE of the recipients deal with whatever it was that inspired the email, as each assumes one of the others will, but the rest of us the trouble of Replying All, and reading other people's replys, just to state that we, or find out that someone else, doesn't know the answer or can't do the thing that needs doing: the 'Punt' button.

It doesn't actually send out a message; it just sneaks onto the server and moves our names from the 'To:' to the 'Cc:' list in everyone's email, thus making it clear that we're not dealing with this. Anyone who looks at the email later will be able to tell as much.

If the 'To:' list shrinks to none, the email is bounced to the sender, so they can widen their pool of victims or start going around to people's desks with a heavy object.