Email Tip of the Week: How to Use BCC
Posted in: Email
When you’re using your email program (Outlook, Outlook Express, Mail, Thunderbird, etc.) to send out an email to a group of people who don’t know each other, make sure you don’t drop everyone’s email addresses into the “To” or “CC” fields. Instead, use the BCC field and put your own address in the “To” field.
BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy, and not only should it be used when your recipients don’t know one another, it should also be used when your recipients shouldn’t be able to know who else received your email – as in the case of a company sending out an email to a group of clients.
