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Happy Friday, kids! Scroll on down for Today's Tip!
GROUP EMAIL MESSAGES
When you send an email message to a group of people, be kind and DO NOT reveal the email addresses to everyone in the group! Not everyone wants their address passed around to strangers.
To send a group message without revealing the addresses, simply enter your own address in the "To" box and the others' addresses in the "Bcc" box. Sending the others as blind copies prevents them from seeing each other's addresses.
Don't see a "Bcc" box when you're addressing a new messge? I have Outlook Express, and in order to Bcc, I click on the word "To" at the top and it gives me a little window in which to enter the Bcc addresses.
(PS - In case you don't know, "Bcc" stands for blind carbon copy, a term used back
when we actually typed letters on a typewriter and used carbon paper for copies!)
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Happy Friday, kids! Scroll on down for Today's Tip!
GROUP EMAIL MESSAGES
When you send an email message to a group of people, be kind and DO NOT reveal the email addresses to everyone in the group! Not everyone wants their address passed around to strangers.
To send a group message without revealing the addresses, simply enter your own address in the "To" box and the others' addresses in the "Bcc" box. Sending the others as blind copies prevents them from seeing each other's addresses.
Don't see a "Bcc" box when you're addressing a new messge? I have Outlook Express, and in order to Bcc, I click on the word "To" at the top and it gives me a little window in which to enter the Bcc addresses.
(PS - In case you don't know, "Bcc" stands for blind carbon copy, a term used back
when we actually typed letters on a typewriter and used carbon paper for copies!)
Excellent tip, Pam! I have been using this method for years whenever I feel the need to send the rare group email message as many of my friends and acquaintances do not know each other.
Excellent tip, Pam! I have been using this method for years whenever I feel the need to send the rare group email message as many of my friends and acquaintances do not know each other.
Man I thought Bcc meant Big clan community. I don't send group e-mails, mine are all individualized. I only have 3 friends and I don't want to waste carbon copy paper.
OMG! This just reminded me of something I had to do in the 70s. I worked in a government office and we all took turns replying to congressional inquiries in Chicago.
The reply had to have 7 carbon copies with the original AND there could be no errors on the original and copies. No erasures and no white out.
We thought we were uptown Saturday night because we had Selectric typewriters.
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