Comments on: Turning on BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) in Windows Mail

By: The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » Make Blind Carbon Copy Your Friend

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:59:56 +0000

[...] it dead-on: unprotected, mass-email, is like an STD. I’ve posted before about how it’s sometimes hard to find the BCC function, but I really think that software developers need to get it through their skulls [...]

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:11:44 +0000

Yeah, tell me about it Chris! I actually have a text macro I send to people regarding BCC…

“Could I ask a favour? When mass-mailing so many people, using the BCC field helps protect all of our email addresses from viruses. Most of viruses that send themselves out over email do so by scanning the email inside the Inbox and grabbing any email addresses that the virus can find. I’ve never published this email address on a Web site before, but I’m already getting viruses coming to me from people who get my address from indiscriminate CCing. Something to keep in mind for the future. :-)”

By: chrisgohlke

chrisgohlke — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:48:28 +0000

“At any rate, I wanted to email a bunch of people today and like any good, rational person using email I wanted to use the Blind Caron Copy (BCC) field to protect the privacy of the people I was emailing, and to lessen the chance of it being blocked by spam filters.”

I wish I could convince most of the people I know to use BCC.

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:25:11 +0000

Yes, it’s the same - you’d think I would have remembered it, but it’s so horribly non-intuitive.

By: Janak Parekh

Janak Parekh — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:42:24 +0000

Isn’t this the same as Outlook Express? I can’t remember for sure, but I have some vague recollection about using bcc being a pain in it as well.