what is bcc and cc for on emails?

[BlueDragonfly]

Am i missing out on something really great by not knowing?

cc is copy to and bcc is blind copy - that is the people you're ccing can't see the people you're bccing...

bbc - blind carbon copy
cc - carbon copy

cc- carbon copy
bcc- blind carbon copy

bcc obviously

cc is to copy someone in
bcc is to 'blind' copy them in, so none of the other people receiving the email know that person has also been sent it

cc means carbon copy so if you want someone else to see the email and bcc is blind?carbon copy which means that tht recipeint will recieve the email but the original person you send it to will not know that the person you sent via bcc received it.
HTH

to copy it to people - bcc is blind so they dont see the other names, cc people can see

so i could send an email to x and then bcc it to Y Z and their email addresses are not seen by any of the others ?

oops - late reply!

yup

actually what bcc is really for is you dobbing someone in and then they drop you in it by hitting 'reply all' and the people who were only cc'd find out who else you copied to. Ho hum. Have been there.

can the people i bcc to see each other?

I have people who want their email addresses secret from others and i want to mass mail ONCE !

no they can't see each others addresses iff you put them all in the bcc box.

and even if someone hits 'reply all' they won't.

reply all will not reply to anyone bcc'd!

No but the bcc person can reply all? i'm sure this has happened to me...

have decided to text the awkward ones!! Thank you though

Can they wilfsell????

I never knew that. I will be wary from now on!!

using BCC could trigger Spam filters at your ISP. So I'd suggest avoiding it's use, as a means of sending the same message to many people.

No competent ISP will filter on use of bcc. (I don't think it's even technically possible).