"Forwarding" emails is only private...

[A.J. Raven]

... when you use "BCC" addressee line.

I am a little in shock as I just received a forwarded joke from a client. which was also sent on to 11 other people, most likely other escorts - I don't think he is actually stupid enough to have included his wife or his niece in that list.

Additionally, the joke has been forwarded 3 times previous, so I have quite a few email addresses.

I've sent a WTF email and blocked him.

How long have we had email now? Perhaps a refresher course is needed?

BCC = Blind Carbon Copy = PRIVATE

I can almost understand it in the real world, but in this business? Come on!

 

[mcdoste]

When sending jokes or such to lists of people I ALWAYS use BCC as I do not want to send my address book out to the world. I can not believe it when I get messages that have multiple addresses in the To or CC line. I think the problem is that a lot of people do not know they can address an email message to themselves, then add the others to the BCC.

 

[Meister]

I remember a guy who worked at one of my competitors. We knew each other. He sent me a joke. He also sent it to all his customers with CC. It was a happy day for me as I got a free list of potential new customers.

 

[tboy]

How about this? DON'T forward jokes, anecdotes or chain letters? EGADS could it be that simple? No, say it isn't so? I mean, do you REALLY think I haven't read that joke 17 times before and you're the ONLY one that will forward it?

Man, if I wanted to read a joke, I'd go online to the joke site and read it for myself......and as for those "forward this email to 11,000 other people and bill gates will come to your house and blow you"....I mean, really, how dumb are you to believe that?

 

[mcdoste]

I only forward jokes to those who have sent them to me or who have asked if I want to swap some good ones. Like KWI, I only send the ones I think are really good and have had me OTFLMFAO

 

[tboy]

slight? SLIGHT? wtf is up with that? I mean really I thought I gained more ground than SLIGHT.....grrrRRrrRRrrrrr

Hey, anyone can send anything they want, I'm not disputing that. But if someone sends me lameass joke emails they better stop when I politely ask them to....else they'll end up on 18,203 porn email lists.....(and I kid you not, someone at my previous work didn't stop so I plisted them. The next day they received 1700 emails...lol and you should have heard them scream when they opened up outlook lol.....SEVENTEEN HUNDRED EMAILS? WHAT'S GOING ON? So I said, you know how I threatened to do something if you didn't stop sending me junk? Well, there you go!)

 

[WhaWhaWha]

There's a logical explanation for why some people don't use the BCC.

They're assholes.

 

[tboy]

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[Mia.Colpa]

I don't think he is actually stupid enough to have included his wife or his niece in that list.

Don't bet on it, there is an idiot on every corner. Nothing should surprise anyone nowadays.

 

[Ben Hogan]

There's lots of people who don't understand how email works. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.

 

[MuffinMuncher]

... when you use "BCC" addressee line.

I am a little in shock as I just received a forwarded joke from a client. which was also sent on to 11 other people, most likely other escorts - I don't think he is actually stupid enough to have included his wife or his niece in that list!

Remind the SPs who sent email blasts out to their entire contact list. Melina Sanchez did this, and there have been a few others in recent months. Very indiscrete to share personal data with other clients in this manner, since many never counted on their work emails being publicly associated with escorts and the sex industry.

Its not just the guys who are idiots.

 

[A.J. Raven]

Remind the SPs who sent email blasts out to their entire contact list. Melina Sanchez did this, and there have been a few others in recent months. Very indiscrete to share personal data with other clients in this manner, since many never counted on their work emails being publicly associated with escorts and the sex industry.

Its not just the guys who are idiots.

My reminder was directed to everyone. I was not attacking the guys. it happened that it was a guy who did this in my case. Don't be so sensitive Muffin.

 

[MuffinMuncher]

My reminder was directed to everyone. I was not attacking the guys. it happened that it was a guy who did this in my case. Don't be so sensitive Muffin.

And my post wasnt in any way directed at you or any one person in particular. Dont be so sensitive.

 

[A.J. Raven]

And my post wasnt in any way directed at you or any one person in particular. Dont be so sensitive.

You quoted me, implying your reply was directed at me, and you mentioned someone by name. Now you're just being a baby. My reminder was sufficient if that was you're purpose. You just needed to whine and hijack the thread, apparently. Tsk. Tsk.

 

[Aloha511]

What does A.J. stand for?

 

[A.J. Raven]

Yeah, BCC helps reduce the risk of spam.

But sometimes I don't BCC among a regular group of friends but I know I should because I don't know who they are forwarding to and whether they also use BCC.

I don't think it's necessary to be hyper-vigilante about it. I was just concerned because it was coming from a client in my case. I thought it was important to mention it, (and I needed to vent a little) as a little reminder to those of us in, & involved with, this business.

It's probably fine to do amongst friends and people who know each other in "the real world".

 

[mcdoste]

Like JohnFK said, you never know who they are forwarding to. Simply by using the BCC you are taking less of a chance of spreading email addresses that some may whish to keep private. I actually have several accounts that I use for different reasons. Some accounts I don't care if they get spammed because I never recieve mail through them, just send. Other accounts I want to keep off the main stream so I never use them for signing into accounts or requesting information. The thought of using one of the more private accounts to send jokes would be to risky.