Email's 'carbon copy' issue

It seems obvious to many, but given the prevalence of the issue, it's not to most. The problem: sending a message to a mailing list in the "Cc" field. Why is it a problem? The email address of each person on the mailing list is now exposed to each of the other members on the list.

For those who don't know, email clients have an additional field other than the "To" field to indicate the recipients of the message with. This has colloquially been dubbed the carbon copy, or "Cc" field.

In a similar way that email programs have the "Cc" field, they also have a "Bcc" field, or blind carbon copy. The effect of the "Bcc" field is the same as the "Cc" field except for one crucial detail. The address of each recipient is not exposed to each of the other recipients.

Enter addresses one at a time, or use a mailing list just like either the "To" or "Cc" fields. An individual message will be sent to each recipient as though it was sent to just that recipient.

Each email client is different in the way it presents the blind copy field, and a common trend of late is to hide it by default. It's certainly meant to simply the process of sending a message by eliminating clutter, but this is likely contributing to the issue. Regardless, all clients have the feature. Please find how to enable it, and use it.

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