Don’t send an email to your family, friends or business associates and include the list of their email addresses in the (Carbon Copy) field of the email. This means that everyone can see everyone else’s email addresses.
When I send an email to a group I put my address in the ‘To’ field, and I put everyone else’s addresses in the ‘BCC’ (Blind Carbon Copy) field.
To make the BCC field available to you in Outlook 2007 simply start a new email, and in the Options Tab at the top, select ‘show BCC’. In Outlook 2003, Open a New Mail, Select the Options button, and from the drop down select BCC. Or in Outlook Express go to File, New Message, then select View, then Enable All Headers. This will bring up the BCC Box, which you click to create new messages. Similar features are probably available in other email programs such as gmail, hotmail etc.
Annoyingly I have received emails from government bodies and large companies with hundreds of email addresses in the ‘CC’ field. This carelessness contributes to SPAM and other security breaches on the internet. Please use the ‘BCC’ field.
