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Sending an Email to
Multiple Recipients - Cc:
and Bcc:
Use Cc and Bcc to send an email to
more than one person easily and
fast
By Heinz Tschabitscher , About.com
Guide
When you write an email, you write
it to someone (or, of course, to
someone
special).
Yet the To: field is not the only
place to put an addressee. Two
more fields accept recipients. They
are called Cc: and Bcc: , and you
probably have already seen them —
the former at least — in your email
program . Let's find out what Cc: and
Bcc: are for.
Cc: — Carbon Copy
"Cc" is short for "carbon copy".
Those naming and designing this
email feature probably had the real
world counterpart to email in mind:
letters. Carbon copy paper made it
possible to send the same letter to
two (or even more if you hit the keys
really hard) different people without
the onerous task of having to write
or type it twice.
The analogy works well. An email is
sent to the person in the To: field,
of course.
A verbatim copy of the message is
also sent to all the addresses listed
in the Cc: field, though. Yes, there
can be more than one email address
in this field, and they all get a copy.
To enter more than one address in
the Cc: field, separate them with
commas.
The Shortcomings of Cc:
When you send a message to more
than one address using the Cc: field,
both the original recipient and all
the recipients of the carbon copies
see the To: and Cc: fields including
all the addresses in them.
This means that every recipient gets
to know the email addresses of all
the persons that received your
message. This is usually not
desirable. Nobody likes their email
address exposed to the public.
Full Cc: fields also don't look all that
good. They can become quite long
and grow big on the screen. Lots of
email addresses will overshadow
little message text.
Bcc: — Blind Carbon Copy
The long version of "Bcc" is "blind
carbon copy". If this gives you the
image of an empty sheet of paper —
a carbon copy without text —, that's
not quite what email's Bcc: is up to.
The Bcc: field helps you deal with
the problems created by Cc: . As it is
the case with Cc: , a copy of the
message goes to every single email
address appearing in the Bcc: field.
The difference is that neither the
Bcc: field itself nor the email
addresses in it appear in any of the
copies (and not in the message sent
to the person in the To: field either)
.
The only recipient address that will
be visible to all recipients is the one
in the To: field. So, to keep
maximum anonymity you can put
your own address in the To: field
and use Bcc: exclusively to address
your message.
Bcc: lets you send a newsletter, too,
or send a message to "undisclosed
recipients" .
Cc: and Bcc: Etiquette
Bcc: is a nice and powerful tool. But
you still should limit its use to cases
when it is clear that the message
was sent to multiple recipients
whose addresses are protected using
Bcc: . You could mention the other
recipients at the end of the email by
name, but not by email address, for
example.
In any case, Bcc: not a spying
device. How would you feel when a
message addressed to you might
also have reached a number of other
people, but you did not know who?
Adding Bcc: Recipients
To add Bcc: recipients in your email
program:
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