Emails - forwarding etc.

[Mr-H]

I have received this message at the foot of an email: 'Thank you for deleting my address and any other address or personal information from this e-mail if you plan to forward it. Thank you also for using 'bcc' instead of 'to or cc' when initiating both individual and group e-mails as this helps to prevent spammers and hackers from obtaining addresses, thus less proliferation of spam.' I had heard of this before, and indeed do delete senders addresses when forwarding. However, using Windows Mail (as I do with Vista, I cannot find the 'bcc' mentioned. Can anyone tell me where it is? Is the idea of deleting address/not using to or cc a good idea or indeed is this not true and there is no need to bother?

[Buenchico]

http://www.tech-recip...CC_blind_carbon_copy/

[squarebear]

"Is the idea of deleting address/not using to or cc a good idea or indeed is this not true and there is no need to bother? "

It is a VERY good idea to remove other people's addresses from any forwarded email. I regularly get joke emails which must have over 100 email addresses on them! Now if I was a spammer, I could take those addresses and spam them with Viagra, Russian brides and so on.

[yogasun]

Agree squarebear, I have tried to educate all my 'forwarders' when I myself was alerted to the potential problems. Some still ignore it however.

[Jemisa]

I find when I want to send an email to a friend the BCC way I open by clicking on 'To' it then opens your addy book click on your person (say John Smith) send it to him then click the others you want to send it to in the BCC panal , click ok at the bottom and up will come the list you are sending to with just John Smith in the 'SEND TO panel and the others in BBC which doesn't show on your email when John Smith recieves it.
Soo it looks to him as if you have sent it just to him.
Try It.

jem