I sent to my friend who sent me the suspect email a digest of excerpts from your replies so he will know in the future how best to forward articles etc.
regards, doug
On Aug 20, 2004, at 8:50 AM, chris wrote:
Sometimes I receive a copy or forward of an article that was also send to CC of about 200 other addresses. If I reply to all then my reply will go to all addresses. Is this something that can be fodder for spammers? Also isn't it really a violation of ones privacy to arbitrarily send someone's email address to others without permission.
There was already a good answer regarding the BCC/CC issue, so I won't rehash.
But I will add, that yes, CCing to large groups of people, can cause you
email headaches. Spam is possible, although much more likely is virus
floods. All the new PC viri no longer use the address book for addresses,
rather, they pull addresses right from emails. So if your email address
is in that block of 200 and ANY ONE of those people gets a virus, you
will be the recipient of a virus email, as well as the recipient to all
the bounces because your address was used as the return address for a run
of virus emails.
So it is in yours, and every else's best interest, to BCC all bulk
emails. The only reason to use a CC is because you WANT the other
recipients to be aware that you also sent the email to someone else. This
is useful when you are planning a trip with a small group of friends, and
you want it to be easy for everyone to stay in the loop of the discussion
(or any other similar rational). But it has no place when sending
generic, impersonal, forwards such as jokes. Those should always be BCC
to protect the innocent.
-chris <http://www.mythtech.net>
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