E-mail Tips
E-Mail Tips
Whenever you send mail to a large group of people, always use the Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) address field instead of the To: field.
When you use the To: field, everyone who gets the message sees the addresses of everyone else whom you sent it to. Bcc addresses are not seen in the message. This is very important for those people who forward email to a group of friends. Remember, it is your responsibility to protect the email addresses of your friends as well as you protect your own.
Make sure you remove extraneous email addresses from forwarded mail — especially forwarded email headers. This means you should trim down a message before you forward. If person A sends you mail and you forward it to person B, then you have just distributed person A’s email address without their consent. Make sure you only forward the content of the message, not the headers. This also means you do not bury the content and so your readers don’t have to search through all of the headers to find it.
Do not include your email address in the signature of your message in mail you send. Your recipients can get your email address from the header and if it gets reposted with the headers removed, your email address will not be distributed.