Comments on: When people abuse the CC header field in e-mail http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/07/25/when-people-abuse-the-cc-header-field-in-e-mail.html The weblog for Summersault, LLC, a website development firm in Richmond, Indiana Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: etbnc http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/07/25/when-people-abuse-the-cc-header-field-in-e-mail.html#comment-2691 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:31:16 +0000 http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2006/07/25/when-people-abuse-the-cc-header-field-in-e-mail.html#comment-2691 Additional thoughts on BCC: In the mass mail situation you describe, are you implicitly suggesting using *only* BCC for *all* recipients? That makes sense to me. It might be good to explicitly warn about mixing BCC recipients with TO and CC recipients. If I recall correctly, BCC recipients still can reply to all other visible recipients. (Perhaps that behavior depends upon one's mail program?) In that case, the visible recipients (i.e. listed as TO and CC ) may receive a mysterious reply from an unexpected source, and wonder, "Hey, why is Mr. X replying to this message sent to me?" That can create some... interesting... office conversation. When using BCC then, it might be helpful to note in the message that there are more recipients, and/or only use TO and CC for those few recipients who won't be shocked by mysterious replies. Cheers Additional thoughts on BCC:

In the mass mail situation you describe, are you implicitly suggesting using *only* BCC for *all* recipients?

That makes sense to me. It might be good to explicitly warn about mixing BCC recipients with TO and CC recipients.

If I recall correctly, BCC recipients still can reply to all other visible recipients. (Perhaps that behavior depends upon one’s mail program?)

In that case, the visible recipients (i.e. listed as TO and CC ) may receive a mysterious reply from an unexpected source, and wonder, “Hey, why is Mr. X replying to this message sent to me?” That can create some… interesting… office conversation.

When using BCC then, it might be helpful to note in the message that there are more recipients, and/or only use TO and CC for those few recipients who won’t be shocked by mysterious replies.

Cheers

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