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