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Most people don't make a good use of BCC. Another instance where it is useful is when asking a question at a mail list but asking that anyone who answers only
by dudus 13y ago
Most people don't make a good use of BCC.
Another instance where it is useful is when asking a question at a mail list but asking that anyone who answers only addresses the you not the whole email list.
Just send the email with the list in BCC, and that's gonna be automatic.
- bentcorner 13y agoAnd then face the rage of a thousand suns when you break email filtering rules ;) (personally I have rules that catch this sort of behavior so it doesn't bother me, but I've seen it happen).
- yuvadam 13y agoThat's a pretty rude and selfish way to approach a mailing list. I wouldn't be surprised if such a question goes on to be ignored.
- cbr 13y agoThere are uses: From: me To: me Bcc: foo-enthusiasts Subject: [survey] what's your favorite version? What's your favorite version of foo? Write me off-list and I'll post back to summarize.
- teddyh 13y agoFrom RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines, Section 3.1.2, Mailing List Guidelines: > If you ask a question, be sure to post a summary. When doing so, truly summarize rather than send a cumulation of the messages you receive. http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.html#page-10 http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.html#page-10
- dudus 13y agoImagine the maillist of all your coworkers and you want to let them know you are selling a few items. It's not rude to force responses to be only to you. This reduces the amount of email everyone gets.
- sgustard 13y agoNo, that's what Reply-To is for.
- dudus 13y agoExcept gmail doesn't support reply-to in a per message basis.