| Email is pretty straight forward. You type what you | | | | address. These addresses are going to be visible to |
| want to send, add the address of the person you | | | | everyone that gets the email. If you sent an email to |
| wish to receive your message, and then you click the | | | | your boss, his or her boss, and the company |
| send button. In a matter of seconds, that person can | | | | accountant, each will know that. Keep that in mind |
| then click on that message in their inbox and read | | | | when you use this useful function. |
| what you have to say. There are other features on | | | | BCC is not quite the same. This is something that |
| email however, that can be both extremely useful | | | | does the same thing but does not work in the same |
| and also very dangerous. You should be sure you | | | | way. You can add email addresses to this field and |
| know how to use these features, especially the BCC | | | | each will get a copy of that email. |
| and CC options. | | | | However, the difference with BCC (blind carbon |
| Some people make huge mistakes when sending out | | | | copy) is that the people getting the email will not see |
| emails. These could be business related, but they can | | | | the addresses of those other recipients. This can be |
| also be about personal matters as well. There are | | | | used when you need to know someone has seen |
| times when people choose to send out mass emails. | | | | what you have sent, but you don't want the person |
| These are going to more than one person. The | | | | getting that email to know it. It is also used to |
| mistake some make is made when they reply to that | | | | protect the privacy of email addresses so that they |
| email with something less than favorable to say. | | | | are not presented to others who have no business |
| Instead of hitting the 'reply' button, they hit the 'reply | | | | having them. |
| all' button. When they do that, what they have to | | | | When you see an email address in the CC field that |
| say goes to everyone on the list rather than just the | | | | you do not know, and you want to know who that |
| sender. Almost everyone makes this mistake at least | | | | person might be, you can do some online research to |
| once. | | | | find out more. Some addresses are searchable and |
| CC on email is much like CC on business letter | | | | some are not, but you won't know until you search. |
| communications. This means carbon copy. When you | | | | Try a free email address search to see what comes |
| add email addresses to this field in your email, you | | | | up with your query. |
| are sending a carbon copy of that email to each | | | | |