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Blind Carbon Copy

Use the Blind Carbon Copy feature in your mail program when forwarding things to people who may not know each other. That keeps their e-mail private.  

Using "Blind Carbon Copy" when sending e-mail

It's considered bad e-mail "etiquette" to send or forward mail to your friends by adding their addresses to the To: or Cc: areas. The recipients Don't use the To: or Cc: box when sending mail to lots of people.probably don't know each other, and they may wish to protect their privacy by not revealing their e-mail addresses to strangers. (Forwarded messages usually make the rounds of the Internet as they travel from friend to friend to friend, so everybody's e-mail address may wind up in the hands of somebody you don't even know.)

The solution? It's much better etiquette to place the recipients' addresses in your Use the Bcc field to enter names of many recipients.e-mail program's Bcc: field, not the To: field. "Bcc" stands for "Blind Carbon Copy". Everybody listed in the Bcc: box still receives the message, just as if they had been listed in the To: box. However, the message's recipients won't see the e-mail addresses of the other recipients.

Unfortunately, Outlook Express doesn't usually show the Bcc: box as an option when sending mail. To turn on the Bcc line in Outlook Express, try this:
  1. Open any message stored in your Inbox.
  2. Choose All Headers from that message's View menu.
  3. Close the message.
That's it. You probably won't see anything exciting happen.

But the next time you try to send or forward a message, you should be able to see the Bcc spot, ready for use. The Bcc area should then be available for use on all your future messages.

If, by some twist of Computer Fate, the Bcc: area suddenly disappears, repeat the three steps listed above to put it back in place.

There's another perk to using the Bcc feature when sending messages: Should the recipients decide to forward that message to their own friends, the previous recipients' addresses won't be listed along with the message, preserving their privacy and giving the forwarded message a cleaner look.