Comments on: 5 emails you should never write

By: d fox

d fox — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:10:39 +0000

I never heard about bcc until my boss showed it to me a couple months ago. Recently after following her advice and using it to blindly forward emails to her between myself and others I realized what I was doing… and that it was completely wrong. It's manipulative and controlling. Not to mention sneaky. I will NEVER use this function again unless it's used to protect my email from potential spam… not to hide from others that I am sharing emails they believed were private. I can see where the good intentions may lie in certain situations, but why not just inform the party you are corresponding to that you will be forwarding the info to another person? Unless you have something to hide… it should be the honest way to go. I mean… it's illegal for another person to open my mail-even my partner can't open my mail. It's a federal offense. I think email should have some sort of protection as well. Be careful!

By: Toxic Brit

Toxic Brit — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:33:20 +0000

I send out many emails that are BCC'd because I keep my email list and thus my contacts private, mainly as this has been requested.

By: lori sweetland

lori sweetland — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:56:39 +0000

Some people may wish to keep their own email address private. Therefore, if I send out an email to everyone on my list (which I do not, ever) then everyone now has everyone else's email address. Some people wish to keep their email accounts private and not full of spam, junk mail and jokes, and that is their right. To assume that it means there's something dishonest going on is just closeminded and offensive, to say the least.