It's in one of the RFCs, I don't recall which. We went through this somewhere recently, and it ended up with people having differing opinions about how the standard should be interpreted, so finding the reference probably won't settle the question. The point is that the people who have designed Entourage--and a lot of others as well--believe that this is the standard. (If someone else recalls which document it is in, they're welcome to post it.)
Furthermore, there are some ISPs (including AOL, I believe, which although I don't think highly of them have to be given a lot of weight because of the sheer number of their members), who refuse mail that does not have at least one recipient "in the open." So if you want your mail to be delivered to all the recipients, you will abide by that standard. Entourage, in forcing you to do so, is doing you a favor, IMO. I ususally just send myself a copy or use a hidden group. I have a script that makes all the recipients of a message into a group, so if I have a BCC message that I want to send to a random collection of contacts, I just make them all into a temporary group, send to that group, and then, after sending, delete the group. That's rare, though; sending myself an open copy is a lot easier. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> > From: Terje Bless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:03:09 +0100 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Blind copy problem > > Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> it's against some internet standard to hide all recipients > > Reference? > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
