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I've mentioned this here more than once, and reply this way to anyone who uses CC rather than BCC to send me mass mail. It is an appalling habit, a gross violation of privacy, and it makes me crazy.

I once got a mass email -- a total hoax, at that -- with hundreds of email addresses of previous recipients in it. One group appeared to be all the female undergraduate students in the math department at an Ontario university.

Now there's a handy list for a stalker. Remembering that in 1989, a man murdered 14 women students in the engineering department at a Quebec school, for being "feminists", it seemed particularly ill-advised.

I don't put my email address or other personal details on the internet. Why anyone thinks I want them circulated to total strangers via mass emails is beyond me.

But there's someone here at GR who keeps doing it to me, despite me asking that she stop ...

On hotmail I press forward then I go to the right of the 'to' box and click on 'show CC and BCC'. the 2 boxes then appear below 'to' and I click in the bottom (BCC) box and put the addies in there. No need to put one in the 'to' box, but if you have you can delete it (a little cross after the addy).

Huia.

Julia I should have said I use outlook express, Mac will use a different one but you will find it.

Caz

Thanks Yorkshire Caz and The Old Geezer, will have a go tomorrow, when I have more time to play. Off for the evening meal soon.
Julia in Derbyshire

Julia when you click to create a new message you get the box up, where you put the recipiants name there are three boxes underneath, it is the third one down. Always click on that and you can see who it is going to but no-one else can.

Caz xx

Would someone please tell me where to find the BCC facility and how to use it. Please see my previous post.
Many Thanks
Julia in Derbyshire

PS. A real computer numpty, if ever there was one. Doh, what am I like.

I use BCC and wish others would too!!
I try telling those who send me junk mail with 500 addresses still showing, but quite a few ignore my request even though I point out the dangers. I really don't want my e.mail address going around the world for all and sundry to see and (possibly) use! I mean, we'd hardly write our phone number down and send it out to hundreds of strangers!

It takes no more than a second to delete all those e.mail addresses - but people just don't get it, do they!

Like the rest of you - it is one of my main bugbears!!

I always use BCC as well, plus I delete any email addresses that are already on, before I send them to anyone.

I ALWAYS use BCC.
But most of the ones which come to me.... don't.
Carole, that is one of my big complaints... people who leave all the address from other people.
Deleting them is a full time job.
Deanna X

I do not send Jokes to people, but I sure as hell get them from one person. I have asked her not to bother as, one, more often than not I do not have the time for them and they do not appeal to my sense of humour, and two,because of the very reason as mentioned. It gives out your e-mail addy to all and sundry.
No wonder we get spurious mail from unknown people. I despair, because this person just does not get it.
Sorry, but it is one, if not my main bug bear, on the internet.
Julia in Derbyshire

I'm nudging this up because it is one of my bugbears. I always use BCC when passing jokes to a lot of people, I wish more people would use it, and delete any e-mails already on.

Caz

Exactly, Elisabeth, our email addresses are going all around the world to every man and his dog. Let us campaign hard to educate people about this danger. I am not exactly computer literate, but I soon learnt to use BCC for multiple emails.

Huia (off out to visit OH now).

Huia,

Some people just don't seem to realise that the long list of addresses keep being repeated over and over again.

I get enough spam email, I really don't need any more. Also, I don't particularly want my email address shown, with my name in full, to Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

Elisabeth
Computer numpty but learning all the time.

Elisabeth, I had asked several people last year to please use BCC, but some of them still dont use it, including my brother in law and a friend who is a friend of a lawyer who should have pointed out to him the dangers. Perhaps the lawyer is ignorant too. I dont use BCC if I am just sending to my family who wont have any need to forward it.

Huia.

Huia,

I am having a grumble about this at the moment. Even emailed some of my friends, family and contacts pointing out the error of their ways.

I had a couple of mails, in the last few days, with literally hundreds of email addresses, where they had been forwarded lots of times.

I wish people would think before they press send.

Elisabeth

If you are one of those people who send a lot of jokes to lots of people on your email list, do you use BlindCarbonCopy? If not, and the people who receive the email all send to all their friends and they send to all their friends etc. that means that all the addies on the email will be circulated to hundreds of people. I think that is why I had a scamming letter. Somebody received an email with lots of addies on it, including mine, and were able to send their scamming email out to people.

With BCC, only the recipients address will show. When I want to forward a joke I have received, if it has a lot of addies on it I delete them first.

PLEASE use BCC when sending to multiple addies.

Huia.