Hello MAU, On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:03 +0100 GMT (19/Mar/09, 22:22 +0700 GMT), MAU wrote:
>> I'm not sure that IS etiquette. I worked in an IBM facility and it was >> common practice to send something TO: two or three primaries and CC: >> several others. >> >> I know what you're saying; If someone else needs to read this email I >> should use the CC line. I'm not really sure it rates a warning >> message. Agree. And if you forward those "funny" things to everybody in your addressbook, use BCC (and please delete me from your addressbook first). M> Agree, it is not an etiquette issue. My whole life experience is that M> the addressing and distribution of messages come from the days of TWXes M> (Telex), much before email was invented. You should use the To: field to M> include those the message is really address To, and from whom you may M> expect or request and action and/or reply. And those included in CC M> field (Carbon Copy in TWXes, that's where CC comes form) are just "For M> information". This is also my understanding. M> In the organisation for which I worked for 27 years (up to 1985), to M> further emphasise and clarify the difference, the operators in M> communications department, before distributing copies of received TWXes M> to the different addresses, had to staple a copy of the message on a M> *green* sheet op paper with an ACTION on top for those the message was M> address to, and on a *pink* sheet with FOR INFO on top, for those in CC M> field. Now, this is funny. I guess the wife of the owner of your company owned a factory for green and yellow sheets of paper. -- Cheers, Thomas. Message reply created with The Bat! 4.1.11 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.1.11 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
