| E-mail Etiquette |
Be considerate of other people's
email addresses. It's the ethical thing to do.
If
you haven't noticed, email has replaced everything as the most common
form of communication in use today.
How many times have you received or sent an email that includes 10, 20
or more email address attached to it?
Would you write your friends' phone numbers
on the walls in public places?
If you answer no, then why would you share their private E-mail
addresses with a group of people, many of whom will CARELESSLY forward
the same addresses to even more people?
By including email addresses in the Carbon
Copy field ... listed as CC in your e-mails... you are violating the
privacy of everyone to whom you have sent your message.
So Don't do it!
Instead, use the BCC feature of your E-mail program. BCC means Blind
Carbon Copy. It is a way of addressing mail to more than one person so
that everyone's address is not displayed for all to see.
E-mails usually require that you place ONE address in the TO: field.
Get in the habit of placing YOUR OWN address in the TO: field and all
your recipients' addresses in the BCC field. Just totally ignore the
CC: field.
When
sending an e-mail to multiple recipients, you can hide their e-mail
addresses from each other. This is a sensible anti-spam
precaution because it avoids making a long list of e-mail addresses
available to all the recipients (which is what happens if you put
everyone's address in the To: or CC: fields). For this reason, it often
makes sense to use the BCC: field for mailing lists.
Some viruses also harvest e-mail addresses from users' cache folder or
address book, and large CC lists may further the propagation of
unwanted viruses, giving another reason to use BCC.
If you can not find your Blind Carbon Copy (BCC), Google it. In the search box enter "how to add bcc in yahoo" or "how to add bcc in aol", or "how to add bcc in gmail". You get the idea!
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