Comments on: email etiquette: use Bcc for groups, please http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/ breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:58:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-217966 David Giacalone Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:16:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-217966 Patrick, you are correct that BCC can stand for Blind Carbon Copy, but BCC is also the acronym for Background Carbon Copy [with a quick Google of the term, I found it <a href="http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netcomp/net17/faq_email.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070321224910AAgucku" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.kortstock.de/PMail/SendenLite.html" rel="nofollow">there</a>], not to mention Blind Courtesy Copy. People in different countries and regions refer to the "BCC" concept in different ways, but the meaning of the action is the same. Patrick, you are correct that BCC can stand for Blind Carbon Copy, but BCC is also the acronym for Background Carbon Copy [with a quick Google of the term, I found it here, here, and there], not to mention Blind Courtesy Copy. People in different countries and regions refer to the “BCC” concept in different ways, but the meaning of the action is the same.

]]> By: Patrick http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-217964 Patrick Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:36:32 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-217964 BCC: = BLIND carbon copy ... as much as I don't like SPAM (reply-all w/o BCCing it), I really think that if you are going to publish something you should do your homework ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Carbon_Copy BCC: = BLIND carbon copy … as much as I don’t like SPAM (reply-all w/o BCCing it), I really think that if you are going to publish something you should do your homework …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Carbon_Copy

]]> By: David Giacalone http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-216936 David Giacalone Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:45:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-216936 Hello, Bruce, If you click "Reply All", you should then be able to convert each of the names on the list from "Cc" to "Bcc", by clicking on the "Cc" or the icon next to it and choosing "Bcc" in the menu. I hope you make a few converts. Hello, Bruce, If you click “Reply All”, you should then be able to convert each of the names on the list from “Cc” to “Bcc”, by clicking on the “Cc” or the icon next to it and choosing “Bcc” in the menu. I hope you make a few converts.

]]> By: Bruce http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-216934 Bruce Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:07:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-216934 I concur with you as I am now again receiving numerous email, due to someone sending out mass emails To all of us and telling us to "reply all" I sent an email to the person who first sent this email, informing them to usethe Bcc, but would liketo copy and past to the Bcc column all these emails, but was unable to do so. Do youy have the method of doing that, Bruce I concur with you as I am now again receiving numerous email, due to someone sending out mass emails To all of us and telling us to “reply all” I sent an email to the person who first sent this email, informing them to usethe Bcc, but would liketo copy and past to the Bcc column all these emails, but was unable to do so. Do youy have the method of doing that,
Bruce

]]> By: Roberta Beary http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-187394 Roberta Beary Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:43:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-187394 I meant to include this other version: buried deep in the cc list my email Roberta Beary I meant to include this other version:

buried deep
in the cc list
my email

Roberta Beary

]]> By: Business Email Etiquette Blog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/comment-page-1/#comment-185920 Business Email Etiquette Blog Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:50:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2008/07/26/email-etiquette-use-bcc-for-groups-please/#comment-185920 [...] Let me introduce to you David Giacalone over at Harvard Law. His Blog is one of the Top 100 list of the best websites by lawyers for lawyers. A lawyer and poet known for his “breathless punditry”, David helped get the word out about the importance of using the BCc field in his posting: email etiquette: use Bcc for groups, please. [...] [...] Let me introduce to you David Giacalone over at Harvard Law. His Blog is one of the Top 100 list of the best websites by lawyers for lawyers. A lawyer and poet known for his “breathless punditry”, David helped get the word out about the importance of using the BCc field in his posting: email etiquette: use Bcc for groups, please. [...]

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