Hyrum Wright wrote: > Chris Kosanovich wrote: >> So i am doing a group project for one of my GE's and >> one of the people emails everyone in the group and of >> course does not use bcc but sticks everyone's email >> address in the to: field (didn't we all learn from >> Novell?!?) > > I'm curious as to why putting the addresses of the people > to whom the email is directed in the To: field is a bad > thing. It seems to me that if the email is targeted at > a group of people, it should be sent to each of them, > not sent to one, and CC'd to the others. CC, as I > understand it, is a method of letting people ancillary > to the communique be semi-officially involved. (Whereas > BCC [or "Blind CC"] is a way to let them be unofficially > involved.:) Just curious what the proper netiqutte on > this one is.
The fields were originally intended to be used just as you describe, and, in most office situations or with small group emails, should still be used that way. However, when sending to a larger group, especially where not everyone knows everyone else's email address, the Bcc: field has become the preferred method because it prevents spammers from harvesting addresses from the email. It also serves to better preserve the privacy of people's email addresses. Of course, if you are sending mail to the same list often, as for a project group, it can be better to set up a Mailman list for the group. This provides the same benefit and ensures that everyone in the group doesn't *need* to have everyone else's email address in their address books. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
