What are advantages to using Bcc and cc?

Answer 1

BCC is the same as CC, except that the BCC field isn't public. An email sent to you via BCC will look as if it was sent normally and magically ended up in your inbox. This is handy for mailing lists, as you could send an email to yourself or nobody and have all of the recipients in the BCC field, protecting their privacy.

Answer 2

CC stands for Carbon Copy, while BCC stands for Blind Carbon copy.

For example, if you do this:

To: Sam

CC:Dave

BCC:Bob,

This will mean that neither Sam nor Dave will find out that you have sent this email to Bob, therefore the word 'Blind'.

You can use this to your advantage in many ways, however there may not be a situation where this may be necessary, therefore you can merely use 'CC'.

Answer 3

BBC means 'blind carbon copy'. It's useful if you're sending an email to many people at once, enabling it means that none of them can see each others email address, only yours. Just courtesy, really.

Answer 4

An email can have 3 recipient specifications: the intended recipient (TO address), those who should also receive copies (CC), and those who should receive copies of the email without any other recipient became aware of it (BCC).

Depending on the program used to send the email, the To, CC, and Bcc entries can each have a list of recipients. ALL email recipients will include a copy of the TO and CC list so they will all know who else is getting the email but not if the recipient is in the BCC list as no email recipient will know of the recipients listed in the BCC list.

You would use Bcc to privately inform a third party of a correspondence sent to someone.

You would use Bcc if you didn't want any of the email recipients to know who else received a copy of the email. An example of an appropriate use of BCC is an email sent by a company to a confidential list of customers. Using Bcc, each customer receives the message and has no knowledge of any other recipient. With CC, every recipient would know of each of the other recipients.

The origin of this is in manually typed letters, before printers and computers. It was possible to create more than one copy of a document by placing several sheets separated by carbon paper into a typewriter. The top sheet looked clean. Subsequent sheets were easily recognized as carbon copies (CC). Customarily, the end of the letter would have a list of the CC recipients but not the Bcc (for Blind Carbon Copy) recipients.

Answer 5

A CC is a way to send an email to multiple people, and a BBC will not show those people who you are sending in the email.

Answer 6

CC is Carbon copy. Everyone sees whom you've sent the mail too.

BCC is Blind Carbon Copy. The recipients of the mail can't see anyone listed on the BCC line.

Answer 7

If you use Bcc: no one can tell you've sent that message to them. Only the recipient of the Bcc knows.