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Here is a quick example of how to use BCC in Yahoo Mail Classic. The idea is similar in many different email programs. Easy Two Step Process There are two simple steps to help your recipients avoid getting flooded with spam. 1.) Enable the Bcc feature 2.) Use "Bcc:" instead of "To:" whenever sending mail to multiple recipients. Screen Shots Step 1.) Find and Enable the Bcc feature Step 2.) Use Bcc: That's all there is to it! You'll be saving your friends from tons of unwanted emails by keeping their email addresses private. For more details on why BCC is important, please see this article: http://systemnotesorg.blogspot.com/2008/02/bcc-howto.html

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...

While researching anti-spam techniques, I came across an anti-telemarketing technique that has proved quite useful. Within a few weeks, it noticeably reduced the amount of telemarketer calls I was getting. Here is the original article, which I copied: The original site seems to be down ( http://home.comcast.net/~dakine_101798/spambeater.htm ): so I have a copy on my systemnotes.org site -- http://www.systemnotes.org/notes/security/Defeat_Telemarketers_for_FREE.html Defeat Telemarketers for FREE! Yes! You can stop Telemarketers COLD! Now you can save that $40.00 you were thinking of spending on a TeleZapper . You can even save a couple bucks on the eBay Auctions for this sound file. The TeleZapper is a device that plays the first tone in the three tones that precede the telephone company's historic " This number has been disconnected " message. Most telemarketing predictive dialers listen for that tone, and when it is present t...