Sending an email to several people at once
If you’re sending the same email to several people, please DON’T put all their email addresses in the “To” box. If you do, all your recipients will see all those email addresses.
There are two reasons why this is a bad thing:
- Security: the more machines an email address is copied to, the more chances that address has of being harvested by spammers or targeted by viruses
- Privacy: some or all of your correspondents may not wish to share their email addresses with others
Instead, send the email to yourself and put your intended recipients’ email addresses into the “Bcc” (blind copy) box. That way, the only two email addresses your recipients will see are yours and their own.
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There’s at least one exception to this:
If a group of people are in frequent contact with each other, it may be more helpful if everyone knows who’s seen what. Moreover, everyone will have everyone else’s email address on their machine in any case, so there’s no great security benefit in blind copying.
In that case, by all means send direct or copy openly (the “Cc” box).