Kai MacTane writes:
 > Text written by Len Budney at 05:07 PM 1/27/99 -0500:
 > >
 > >Does any non-spammer routinely include >25 (or even >5) BCC's in a
 > >message? The only exception I can think of is corporate email, which,
 > >of course, is immune to such rules since the corporate mail server can
 > >handle them appropriately.

 > So they send out their news updates two or three times a week using
 > the Bcc: field.

Yes, but they don't *include* the BCC's in their message.  The whole
point behind a BCC is that it gets moved OUT of the body and into the
envelope.  In general, only spammers are stupid enough to include the
whole thing.

Hmmm...  I ought to add that as a paragraph in my "A bit about email"
chapter.

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