Use BCC:, Please

Here is a little ettiquette tip for proper Internet Communication.  When you get a funny picture, a political outrage, or a religious sentiment you wish to share with everyone on your email list, do 2 things:

Seriously consider whether everyone on your email list really needs this information.  Seriously.  Most recipients probably don't need it, want it, or they have already seen it.

If you feel you must email something to everyone in your email list, at least use the BCC: field so you are not sharing everyones email address with everyone else.

Besides the privacy issues, email harvesters can more easily see the addresses which contributes to more spam.  

Use this site if you need to do an intervention on a friend or relative that forwards too much email to others.

 

 

 

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BCC - great recommendation

Thanks so much for this recommendation.

I'm not the only one who fears spam because of outrageously large cc's in e-mails.  My main issue is that the sender never asked me if it was OK to blast my e-mail address to everybody they know.

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