If you Send and Receive Emails...

[snook]

As long as you send and receive emails, this may be worth your time.

Sending email to a group...

Lots of people are still placing all the recipients [folks] address on the To: line instead of the cc: or bcc: line.

So what is bcc: and cc: for anyway? Well, you already know cc: it stand for carbon copy. bcc: is blind carbon copy.

When you cc: that is, place email recipients on that line, you are letting the person you actually send the email to know that you are also sending a copy to these people.

For example:

You are sending news to a friend but you also want to send the same email news to other friends. So when you cc: you are telling the person whose email is on the To: line, [the original person you send to]  that you are also sending the same email to some other friends. Your friends will also be aware of the fact that the email was sent originally to that one person and that they are only receving a carbon copy of the mail.

So keeping that in mind, you can do the same thing in a business scenario where for instance you need to email the manager of a company but letting the president of the company know that you are sending the email to his manager. In this case you will cc: the president and place the manager's email address on the to: line.

Now bcc: stands for Blind Carbon Copy. This is the line that offers some privacy to your recipients. To make them like you even more, place their names here! That way you don’t give away their email address to everyone! Many people fail to do this. Just check your next email. Especially the forwards. And BTW [By The Way] Forwards are not necessarily a good thing either. It is mostly abused by bad as well as innocent people alike. Even though you may receive an email forward and its content is entirely true, the reason why it was forwarded to you may not be! As a general rule, you should stay clear of forwarded emails.

Now not all email programs are created equal. So the way you will accomplish bcc: may vary from one email client program to another. In AOL for instance, you simply place double parenthesis ((  )) around everyone’s address separated by commas in order to bcc:

Example ((luvyou@\times.com, staying@\home.net, whereyou@\.biz, no_one@\work.org, car@\shop.old )) But ommit the backslashes! I only placed them there to disable the email links.

Now in order to cc: in AOL, you will place everyone’s address on the “Copy To:” line.

Once you gain the concept, you will no doubt begin to use these options more effectively.

Dave