Ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve written and let me assure you, ’tis not from lack of desire. So much going on, so many changes–life is truly wonderous and beautiful. So much so that I find it funny that something as mundane as email etiquette is providing the impetus to make this blog entry.

Ok (part 2), you receive an awesome email about breast cancer awareness month (October) that you want to forward to your friends, family, acquaintances, anyone you’ve ever emailed before, etc. Of course it is an email that all these recipients will be thrilled to receive. So you hit “Forward.”

Test Question: where do you enter all of the email addresses of your lucky recipients? in the “To:” field? in the “Cc:” field? or in the “Bcc:” field?

Score winning points for Bcc:
Score losing points for To: or Cc:

Now for the bonus question: Why?

Answer: SPAM and unsolicited emails are a huge problem these days. We go through great lengths to keep our email addresses from opportunistic senders. To see my email address listed with 50 other strangers’ addresses makes me cringe. They may not be strangers to the sender, but I didn’t ask for that email in the first place. Besides, I’m already involved in Local Breast Cancer Awareness activities. Besides (part 2), who wants to scroll through 3 screens of addresses? it’s just plain unnecessary.