mass emailing -- recommended practice

[Randy Carey <carey@spacestar.net>]

The recent flurry of email about a virus alert demonstrated an inadvertent 
bad practice.

When emailing (broadcasting) to a list of several people, please list 
everyone in the BCC column.  This hides the email addresses of all such 
recipients from each viewer.

While I'm getting the warnings and follow-up messages, I'm also getting a 
long list of email addresses.  This is fertile material for nasty people to 
harvest for junk email lists.  All it takes is one person on the To or CC 
list to forward it to others (and so on), and then who knows who will get 
access to the list ?!

Probably each of us takes measures to shield us from getting on junk email 
lists.  I'm sure we each would appreciate it if when others mass-emailed, 
they put our addresses in BCC (blind carbon copy).

--Randy


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