Avoiding sending multiple names in CC, instead of BCC

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Title: Avoiding sending multiple names in CC, instead of BCC

Dang. I just committed one of the more grave errors of email etiquette: sending out an email to a 70 business contacts, with all their names in the CC field (instead of the BCC field).

The reason I did this is because I've never been able to figure out a way to get a blank Entourage (2004) email to show its BCC field while the Address Book is next to it. In other words, in order to send an email to a variety of people in my Address Book, I open up a blank email. I then open up the Address Book, sort by a Category, Command-Click on the names I want to add to my email, and then drag them over to the blank email. Again, the blank email doesn't show me the BCC field, so I have to place these 50+ names in either the To or CC field. Then, I have to remember to drag them all from that field down to the BCC field. I usually remember to do this, but this time (the time I include 2 CEO's private emails...), I forgot.

Am I doing something wrong, or is the BCC just hidden initially?

Also, I'd love to figure out a way to create a "Warning, Warning!!" message that pops up if I ever try to send an email with ANY names in the CC field. Is it possible to create an Apple Script that would check each outgoing message for any name in the CC field? I never want to send an email with anything in the CC field, so this kind of script would work for my needs. If the script saw that there was a name in the CC field, it would stop the Send process, and put up a message saying something like, "You are about to send a message with names in the CC field. Are you sure you want to do that, buster? Hmm? Hmm?"

One last note: to avoid this email gaffe, I always try to create groups (with the Don't Show box checked) whenever possible. But most of my large group emailings are unique, so I need to pick people by hand.

Thanks for any tips on this!

TBatST