EMail Using BCC

When you email a list of people, don't use the TO: or CC: field, use the BCC: field.

Why?

• So that everyone on the email list doesn't see each others email addresses.
• So you don't expose each recipient to potential email viruses from each other.
• So someone on the list that hits "reply" doesn't email the whole list.

Not everyone wants their email addresses shared with the entire list of people that you are emailing! It leads to all sorts of problems. If just one of the people in the list gets an email virus, the entire list will become exposed.

CC = Carbon Copy

BCC = Blind Carbon Copy

BCC is a nifty little feature in virtually ALL email programs that allows you to email a list of people without each recipient seeing the entire list of email addresses. It is NOT a new feature. BCC has been around almost as long as email. Unless you were on the Internet before 1980 you can't say that you don't have this feature.

BCC allows your emails to look clean and professional. People will clearly see the email is FROM you, without a huge list of recipient addresses in the header (at the top of the email message.)

Can't Find the BCC field?

Yeah some annoying email programs hide it at first. You can tell the email program to show the BCC field by default so you can use it to send secure, polite, and professional emails. Afterall, it is actually very rude to each recipient to expose their address to each member of the list!