Always use BCC

Friday, January 07, 2005

Have you ever gotten something forwarded to you with hundreds of e-mail addresses in the header?

Every address on that email may be getting unintentionally passed all over the net. When you forward it to everyone in your address book you risk making every address on that email vulnerable to unscrupulous advertisers.

So, do your friends a favor and avoid exposing their addresses to all of cyberspace by sending mass mailings as Blind Carbon Copies (BCC). E-mail privacy is just a few clicks away. Here's what you do...

When you create or forward an e-mail you usually select "To:" If you look around, you'll see other options: "Cc:" and "Bcc:". Simply highlight the addresses you want to send to and click "Bcc:".

Put your own address, or a fake one, in the "To:" field and everyone who receives the email will only see that address, and not the other 275 people you
sent the message to.

So PLESE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not breack your friends
and my privacy by exposing his/her/my email address to
the web.

So always use 'BCC'.

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