Do you ever receive a forwarded letter which has already been through 100 people's mailboxes? Of course I exaggerate, it may have ONLY been 25 to 50!
How would I know that?
Because most of those people DO NOT KNOW what BCC stands for!!!
Do you?
It means BLIND CARBON COPY. No it does NOT mean you should have sent it to a blind man instead of me!
That BCC on your email To: list [or there may be a little arrow right after the To: which gives you usually 3 choices.]
1) To: - I think you know this. Everybody sees everybody's email address from EVERY PERSON that forwarded it on! ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES PUT HERE ARE VISIBLE TO ALL PEOPLE THAT GET THE EMAIL FORWARDED TO THEM. Not yelling just emphasizing.
2) CC: - This is used when you want to send it To: someone and also send the exact same email to someone else who may be involved or want to see it. ONLY THE To: person and the CC: person get the email.
3) BCC: This is where you put all email addresses which you want to KEEP PRIVATE from everyone else who gets the email forwarded to them.
SO if we all learn BCC there will be a lot fewer emails forwarded with MONSTROUS LONG LISTS OF EMAIL ADDRESSES BEFORE YOU EVER SEE THE EMAIL! Not yelling, just emphasizing.
Isn't privacy a good thing? Do you really want everyone who you have NEVER met to see ALL of your FRIEND'S email addresses? I didn't think so.
Please use BCC and take a load off the poor old internet. No wonder it goes so slowly sometimes!!
BCC: takepity@oldinternet.com (:-)>
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