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BCC Howto

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Get your Friends to use BCC Send this link, or the contents of this post, to all your contacts, ...using BCC, of course. When you receive a forwarded message, reply with a simple message, such as one or more of the following: "Please don't forward any email to me without using BCC. " "Please don't put my email address in the To or CC fields of messages being sent to people I don't know!" "Please protect email addresses as you would unlisted phone numbers." "Please don't forward any email to me with my email address in the To: or CC: fields." "This is how spam and viruses get spread. See this article for more details -- BCC HOWTO " What is BCC? BCC (Blind Carbon Copy), is the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients. Unlike addresses in the To: or CC: fields, addresses in the BCC: field cannot be seen by other recipients. Reasons to use B...

Sudo Make me a Sandwich

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You may have seen this artwork around the office where Unix / Linux geeks hang out. This is where you can find it: http://xkcd.com/149/ Powered by ScribeFire .