On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:12:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> You refer to the BCC being in "message body"; it isn't. It
> is, and always has been, in the headers.
I should be clearer... <g> That was "message body" from SMTP
dialog point of view (RFC 821), not from recipient's point of
view.
> And these days you normally need very old, or very selective
> software to even *display* the full headers.
Not really, all mailer I know of has a way to easily display
full headers. In case of Arachne, just hit F6.
> If you were using InSight to read that mail in question, you
> wouldn't have seen the BCC *or* [this DOES NEED FIXING] whether
> you are receiving a CC of a message sent to someone else.
The original intended purpose of BCC is for privacy reason.
It allows you to broadcast a single email message to multiple
recipients in an efficient manner, without disclose their email
addresses in open.
> One reason some of the forwarded mail from the Winluze & AOL
> crowd is one attachment after another with thousands [no, I am
> NOT exagerating] of e-mail addresses tucked inside, is because
That commonly known as "chain mail", even worse than ordinary
spams in most case.
> *that* software doesn't show what's going on in the headers or
> the CC list either most of the time.
They does, but only if asked to. I'm not going to list the
commands here. Just RTFM, how to do that usually explained
somewhere in the mailer's "help" function... ;-)
--Eko
http://survpc.virtualave.net/
