Email Tips You Need
Do you ever wonder why you receive emails from me (or anyone else)
addressed to undisclosed recipient? Here's why:
I used the BCC: instead of the To: when I sent the email.
* Screenshot Click 'To' and get to the BCC
* Screenshot Add each address using BCC.
* Screenshot Now all the addresses are on the BCC line!
I don't want to send your email address to other people. The reasons I don't want to send your email address to other people are this: Spam harvesters don't need more addresses to send more Spam and the other people that you forward to already have my address or else they don't need it. There is also the privacy issue, maybe I don't want all of your other friends to have my email address!
If I send a funny joke to you and you forward it to someone else,
everything gets forwarded including all those other email addresses (and
mine!) unless I use the BCC option and not the 'To' option to send you that
joke. Now if you forward that joke, only my email address goes to whomever
you send the forwarded email. (Unless you trim that out, and I hope you do!)
I have received emails (forwarded) that have contained as many as 100 (or
more!) email addresses. Wow! That makes a spammers' little black heart leap
for joy! Of course they have to open about a dozen little envelopes (I
absolutely HATE that and have been known to just delete the whole thing!)
Now imagine someone forwards your joke (that you forwarded) to a group list like Topica or Yahoo. WooHoo! Now the spammer is really happy!
To avoid sending all those email addresses on forwarded emails, when you forward, just edit them all out and send only the joke. It only takes a minute and I do want to disappoint all those spammers, don't you?
Learn how to use the BCC function! And make sure all those folks actually want those jokes!