> "Mr.G" wrote ...
>> HI, if I use CC: instead of just TO: does that stop my bulk mail
>> from
>> having all the recepiants show up in the mail? thanks
> no, you need to use BCC to hide the addresses.
> If recipients have rules that check if they are not specified in the To or
> Cc headers (i.e., they can't see it is addressed to them) then their rules
> could delete your e-mails so they never get seen by those recipients.
Yes, but then the recipient has made the explicit decision to miss out on
all BCC emails to him; the sender of the message shouldn't be bothered with
that. For all I care the recipient has a rule to delete all mail that is
address to him in the "To;" line.

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>> "Mr.G" wrote ...
>>> HI, if I use CC: instead of just TO: does that stop my bulk mail from
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> e-mail are allowed, and won't circumvent any anti-spam measures at the
> recipients' mail hosts or on their hosts.
Vanguard - 25 Aug 2007 16:41 GMT
>> If recipients have rules that check if they are not specified in
>> the To or Cc headers (i.e., they can't see it is addressed to them)
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> bothered with that. For all I care the recipient has a rule to
> delete all mail that is address to him in the "To;" line.
When have you EVER received any e-mail that didn't have you in the To
or Cc headers other than newsletters to which you subscribe or other
opt-in mailings which obviously you should be whitelisting to avoid
them tagged as spam? You should already be whitelisting all your
known senders (i.e., anyone listed in any contact-type folder) and any
other repeated wanted mailings.
So, let's see, you allow any sender using the Bcc to hide your e-mail
address (and other e-mail addresses for an unknown number of
recipients) from whom you never before have received e-mails and from
who you have yet to whitelist? Yes, on the first occurrence for a
subscribed newsletter, confirmation e-mails for registering at a site,
subscribing to a mailing list, online orders then you might not be
listed in the To or Cc headers but then you are expecting an e-mail
from that source that you opted in to receiving their mailings and it
should show up soon after subscribing and why I don't recommend
immediately deleting upon delivery but instead shoving into the Junk
folder and purging items over N days old. You then have the means to
check for the expected e-mails and whitelist them for their future
mailings.
You like to leave your Inbox open to anyone that chooses to use the
Bcc header. I don't. I doubt that I'm alone in this tactic. Most
wizards or even long-time e-mail users will recommend filtering *in*
what you want to keep to avoid or reduce spam. I first blacklist
(block), then I whitelist (filter in), and then I detect spam (filter
out anything not explicitly filtered in). My "Me no in To/Cc" rule is
part of the filter out rules but this particular rule allows for
recovery of one-time mails that I want to keep and may choose to
whitelist (if those wanted mails will repeat). I also use SpamPal
which can automatically whitelist e-mail addresses after receiving
non-spam mail on N separate days (I chose 15 days), but I haven't
bothered using that option yet to filter in those e-mails. I figure
if I want those repeat e-mails that I don't need SpamPal to figure
that out and will simply add the sender to a contact-type folder
(included in a whitelist rule of known senders) or add the sender to a
whitelist rule.