BCC on email... oh dear!

[Ashley_Price]

Okay. Just had an email from a friend who still doesn't get the "BCC" part of the email.

He understands that BCC means "Blind Carbon Copy" and therefore the people/person listed in the "TO" and "CC" parts won't know that a copy has also been sent to someone listed in the BCC box.

What he didn't understand is that is the only bit that isn't copied to everyone. He thought he could write comments in on the email, with the name of person, listed in the BCC box, at the beginning of the line/paragraph, and no one else would see it. So he's made comments about other people and things in his email that he expected only the person listed in the BCC box to see, but of course they've all seen it.

I won't put an exact copy here, but to paraphase by way of an example. ("Daniel", was listed in the BCC box):

Dear All

I've decided we should push ahead with Project X and I suggest we commence on 21 May.

DANIEL: I think this is a crap idea, but what do they know?

I would like your opinions on whether this is a suitable date and if the work will be completed on time.

DANIEL: I think it's highly unlikely, they're a bunch of halfwits, I'll just make them work later to get it finished.

John and Helen: I would like you to oversee this for me while I'm away.

DANIEL: That should wind them up - they've never got along...

And so it goes on. I can't believe how stupid he has been!

 

[dp0848]

That is hilarious!

 

[Jenni384]

PMSL!!!!
Oh, that's just priceless!!!!!!

 

[dagr]

Way back in 1995/6 when I was working for a large multinational and email was still quite a new thing, I used to send emails to the big bosses and CC my immediate colleagues. I'd just make up any old rubbish (colleagues were smelly, drank too much at their desk, etc.). Only, I'd purposefully mispell the big bosses' email addresses, although at a glance it looked like the real thing.

I used to time them to see who'd be the first to arrive seething at my desk.

 

[maxine]

Brilliant

Wouldnt it be great if everyone was honest on email ??

 

[charles2]

Brilliant

Wouldnt it be great if everyone was honest on email ??

It is hard to complete the dream.

 

[CKG]

I did the same yesterday.

I forwarded on some delivery times to a customer from a supplier.

And accidentally ccd the part to the customer where I said to the supplier that the punter 'is a moaning tight wad so could you hurry up the fabricators to save my sanity'

Oops!

 

[stugster]

Fks sake... that's yet another keyboard I'm going to have to go out and replace now. Special K and Milk all over it.

 

[Cornish Steve]

Years ago, I was leading a project at a large telecoms company. Two of the employees there had been carrying on a secret affair - but the details came to light in a similar way. The guy left a voice mail message for the lady. The first part of the message related to the project; the second part of the message was very personal. She listened to the first half and, thinking it was important, hurriedly forwarded the entire message to everyone else on the team - before even listening to the second part. By the time she realised what had happened, they were the talk of the company.

 

[beadell]

Brilliant......you have got to lets us know if he gets any replies

On a side note....and hopefuly one of the techies can clarify.....but I think I also read somewhere that BCC doesnt always work, depends on how your mail server is set up or something. So even though you think you are blind copying email the recipient(s) sees everyone elses email addresses ????

 

[stugster]

So even though you think you are blind copying email the recipient(s) sees everyone elses email addresses ????

The only email addresses that are hidden are the ones sent via BCC.

The recipient of the BCC email will see all the To email addresses.

 

[beadell]

The only email addresses that are hidden are the ones sent via BCC.

The recipient of the BCC email will see all the To email addresses.

Im sure I read somewhere that ISP's can strip out the BCC Field.....I will try and find it

 

[beadell]

Here is something from Mozilla...

RFC2822 specifies how a SMTP server should support Bcc:. Typically if you send a message using multiple Bcc: addresses each recipient gets a separately addressed message, so that nobody (not just the persons whose address was entered in To: or CC sees any of the other BCC'd addresses. However, implementors have a lot of leeway in how to support Bcc: so you should test this. they are only required to hide the BCC'd addresses from anybody you entered in the To: or CC: fields. Don't just look in your copy of the sent message since thats an exception, it's supposed to show all of the headers. The most reliable way to test this is to send a message where you BCC your email address and the email address of another account, and then use webmail to read the message in the other account.

So is this saying if I had person A in the To field....and persons b, c, d, e, etc in BCC then b, c, d, e, could actually see each others email addresses :|

 

[LowcostPR]

Hehe, bless 'em.