Please Use BCC

Somebody would like you to know about Blind Carbon Copy, an easy-to-use feature of email which will reduce your junk email, protect the privacy of others and make your emails less likely to be labelled as spam.

There are over 120 billion emails sent every day, of which a staggering 50% are spam. Spammers often use spyware on innocent people's computers to harvest millions of email addresses found in everyday emails, such as the ones you send to your friends.

When you send an email to lots of friends and you use the To: or Cc: boxes, everybody you send it to can see all those other email addresses.

By using the Bcc: box, each friend receives a copy of the email but doesn't see all the other email addresses. If one of your friends has spyware on their computer, only their address will be harvested by the spammers, not the email addresses of all your other friends.

The Benefits

Please start using the Bcc: box today, if you can't see it when writing an email, just Google how to switch it on, it's usually very easy to do.

You'll reduce the amount of junk email that you and your friends receive, you'll protect their privacy, you'll reduce the chances that your own emails will be filtered out as junk email, and you might even get a warm fuzzy feeling for doing good and being a responsible email user.