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Re: Bcc: ?

Amen!
Bcc is meant to hide from the boss that you are sending secret copies to
someone else.. Not to secretly send to a mailing list..:-D

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 13:20, John Beamon wrote:
> Can we please refrain from Bcc'ing the list?  If the message is 
> personal, off-topic, or otherwise private, it's easy enough to just 
> message a person.  Sometimes the "Reply to: " headers might not point 
> back to the list, for reasons I can't explain, but it's still not hard 
> to copy-paste a person's address into a Reply: or a To: field.  I'm 
> getting a steady trickle of mail To: someone else and Bcc: either myself 
> or the list.  I do not assume you guys are all just copying me 
> personally on your conversations.... yet <wink>...
> 
> We've all got filters set up to handle list traffic, and non-list 
> traffic just adds to the bulk of the junk mail our users sign us up for 
> when they run SoBig and Blaster.  (Anybody else want an "administrator" 
> account, cheap?)  It's a labor of love to double-check messages from 
> strangers that don't even list us as recipients, and it's poor mailing 
> list etiquette to send them that way.  No real harm done, but I'm asking 
> nicely.
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Edward Rudd <eddie@omegaware.com>
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