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What (who) is Blind Carbon Copy - definition

ALLOWS THE SENDER OF A MESSAGE TO CONCEAL THE PERSON ENTERED IN THE BCC FIELD FROM THE OTHER RECIPIENTS
Bcc:; Blind Carbon Copy; Blind carbon-copy; Blank carbon copy; Undisclosed recipients

Blind Carbon Copy         
<messaging> (BCC) An electronic mail header which lists addresses to which a message should be sent, but which will not be seen by the recipients. Bcc is defined in RFC 822 and supported by most e-mail systems. A normal, non-blind "CC" header would be visible to all recipients, thus allowing them to reply to each other as well as to the sender. According to RFC 822, the addresses listed in a BCC header are not included in the copies of the message sent to the recipients. RFC 822 says BCC addresses may appear in the copy sent to "BCC" recipients themselves (though this would be unusual). (1998-03-14)
Blind carbon copy         
Blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) allows the sender of a message to conceal the person entered in the Bcc field from the other recipients. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email.
carbon copy         
  • As creating carbon copies requires relatively few resources, it became a common method for producing underground and clandestine newspapers, as seen in this French example from World War II.
TECHNIQUE OF PRODUCING ONE OR MORE COPIES SIMULTANEOUSLY
Cc:; Courtesy copy; Carbon Copy; Carbon copies; Cc Bcc; Carbon copying; CC (email); Xerox copy; Cc'd
¦ noun a copy made with carbon paper.
?a person or thing identical to another.

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Blind carbon copy

Blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) allows the sender of a message to conceal the person entered in the Bcc field from the other recipients. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email.

In some circumstances, the typist creating a paper correspondence must ensure that multiple recipients of such a document do not see the names of other recipients. To achieve this, the typist can:

  • Add the names in a second step to each copy, without carbon paper;
  • Set the ribbon not to strike the paper, which leaves names off the top copy (but may leave letter impressions on the paper).

With email, recipients of a message are specified using addresses in any of these three fields:

  • To: Primary recipients
  • Cc: Carbon copy to secondary recipients—other interested parties
  • Bcc: Blind carbon copy to tertiary recipients who receive the message. The primary and secondary recipients cannot see the tertiary recipients. Depending on email software, the tertiary recipients may only see their own email address in Bcc, or they may see the email addresses of all primary and secondary recipients but will not see other tertiary recipients.

It is common practice to use the Bcc: field when addressing a very long list of recipients, or a list of recipients who should not (necessarily) know each other, e.g. in mailing lists.

Examples of use of Blind Carbon Copy
1. No one, absolutely no one, is told who is on this famous bcc ("blind carbon copy") list.