Hi Colin,
Bcc: means "Blind Carbon Copy", as opposed to "Cc:" - Carbon Copy.
(Odd terms to use for electronic mail, I know)
If Bcc: addresses were visible to all and sundry, it would rather
defeat the whole purpose of the feature.
In theory, the ONLY person who sees all the addresses in the Bcc:
field is the sender.
Even if multiple addresses were entered in the Bcc field, none of
those recipients know who else was copied this way, since only the To:
and Cc: fields are visible to all.
I hope this is clear.
George.
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Subject: [VICUG-L] Please, how can this be achieved?
Greetings,
I am intrigued.
On the Second-Hand-Zone list, the owner has made it a rule that, only
the
list address may appear in the 'to' line for any message, that no
addresses
are to appear in the 'cc' or 'bcc' lines.
I am intrigued to know, if the 'bcc' line is intended to *hide*
addresses,
how would the owner of the list know that anybody has included an
address in
the 'bcc' line?
I have purposely sent myself messages with my address in the 'bcc'
line,
looked at the properties and headers not finding reference to 'bcc' at
all.
As the list is on Yahoo, is there some kind of tool available whereby
a
'bcc' entry may be exposed? Or, is there a program which can achieve
this?
I have written to the list owner on this matter three times and to
date have
not as much as received acknowledgement of my messages.
I am aware the list owner is not incommunicardo for, since sending the
request to abide by this rule, other messages have been received, such
as
those banning members for lack of adherence to list policy.
I did not notice what email client the list owner used to send the
requirement to the group.
From Colin Howard, who lives near Southampton in
Southern England.
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