Use BCC when addressing many
I get some junk forwarded mails once in a while. Some of them I delete it just by looking at the subject line but some of them I open it in curiosity. And most of the time more than the content what annoys me more is the huge To address list which sometimes would be bigger than the mail itself. If you want to send a mail to lot of people, address everyone in Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) unless and otherwise you specifically want to address in To or Carbon Copy (CC). Here are few advantages I can think of using a BCC when sending a mail to numerous recipients.
- As the name suggests the recipients do not know who else recieved the mail and that helps in maintaining privacy of everyone’s ID.
- It is a good anti-spam protection mechanism because of point 1 and could prevent phishers from getting the mail id’s in bulk.
- If you don’t want the recipients to reply back to everyone then you can use BCC and include any ID in the TO of CC that the recipients can reply to (when selecting reply all).
- The address section of the mail looks neat as the recipient would see only his ID in the BCC text box.
