Exposing BCC information is something that I would never think about doing.  I 
have seen too many lists where people use CC's to distribute and then someone 
else starts using that CC list for thier own purposes. Viruses also tend to 
harvest from such things, and we haven't even touched on privacy.  I have 
certainly BCC'd things that would have probably caused me a great deal of 
embarasment, or might have caused someone to get fired or repremanded if 
exposed.  Although you can expose this information using Declude, it breaks the 
BCC functionality and that's just not acceptable IMO.

I would suggest finding another way to block things from being forwarded and 
reported to AOL, or just deal with it.

Matt




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Dan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date:  Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:16:35 -0400

>I have a customer that is PO'ed at us.  We put the recipients of emails
>into the headers of every email using Declude's %ALLRECIPS% variable.
>This is so we can identify the people who incorrectly report us as
>spammers to AOL just because we forward their mail for them.  Since AOL
>strips that out, we use Declude to figure out who the message was sent
>to.
>
>So this customer gets a bounce message from an email he sent to his
>clients making extensive use of BCC:.  In the headers of the bounced
>email, he saw his whole client list.  Now he's PO'ed, threatening legal
>action, etc, claiming we are "intentionally forwarding identifying
>information a user thought was confidential".
>
>Any thoughts on the legal liabilities of bypassing the BCC:
>functionality in this way?  My supes has tasked me with finding out
>about our responsibility in this matter (the email admin instead of the
>lawyer, natch).
>
>-Dan Horne
>
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