[pmmail-list] Bcc was in Digest (02/28/2003 09:01) (#2003-460)

[Richard Grevers]

On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:47:00 +1100 (EDT), John Angelico wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:01:43 -0500, brandonk@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
>wrote:
>
>Hi Gerhard 
>>
>>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:35:26 +0100
>>From: "Hahn Gerhard" <roostermail@chello.at>
>>Subject: bcc Information missing
>>
>>A problem raised, when a friend of mine told me, that he gets absolutely no 
information in the emailheader, when he 
>>receives email as 'bcc'.
>>
>>Investigations showed me, that eg. gmx(Webportal) or Lotus Notes(>"cc: (bcc: 
Wnnnnn 
>>Hnnnnnnn/Austria/Firma)") provide 'bcc' information for each 'bcc'.
>>
>
>Are you saying there is no header info at all?
>
>>So incoming mail should have:
>>> 	from: dddd@aaa.at
>>> 	to:     eeee@aaa.at
>>>     	bcc:  derda@durt.at
>>
>>This should be provided, because there are a lot of people outside, who 
administer several mail accounts, several 
>>aliases with one MUA.
>
>Or are you saying there is no "Bcc:" line?
>
>Logically since "Bcc:"means "BLIND courtesy copy" noone should be able to
>see to whom it has been sent in the BCC list. 
>
I think that you will find a majority of people to believe that BCC="Blind CARBON 
Copy". (A quick phrase search on google scores 23,500 for this vs only 622 hits 
for the Courtesy variant).
I think also that the common understanding is that the mechanism is one whereby no 
other recipient sees the address of a BCC recipient - hence if there are multiple 
BBC's there should be no headers or each header should show only the address it is 
going to - although the latter functionality would have to be implemented at the 
SMTP server.
Now that I am aware that some clients display all BCC addresses (in my opinion 
erroneously) I shall be more careful how I use it in future.

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