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A1. Emailing to Multiple Addresses.
Have you ever received emails with loads of email addresses or wanted to send multiple emails without giving away all your friends email addresses?
Please be aware there is a very real danger in the practice of sending emails with peoples email addresses openly displayed at the top.
Email addresses should be treated in the same way as a silent phone number. They should not be given out without permission.
Using Blind Carbon Copy for emailing to multiple addresses.
When you send an e-mail either using forward or an original mailing, you may want to send it to a number of e-mail addresses. It is poor e-mail ettiquette to show all those addresses, because you are sending a person's address to others without their permission. An easy way to avoid that is to send the item to yourself and then put all of the other addresses in a blind carbon copy or as it is referred to, the bcc mode. That way, all the addresses will not be shown.
Sending blind copies varies depending on which e-mail program you use, but one factor seems standard. Separate each address by either a comma or semi-colon and a space.
AOL and Juno use a system that other programs may also use:
1. Put all the addresses on the Carbon Copy line and separate then by commas or semi-colons.
2. Put a parenthesis before the first address and after the last address. In other words, enclose all of the addresses in the Carbon Copy box within one set of parentheses. This turns all of the addresses into blind carbon copies.
For Outlook Express, a blind carbon copy address line is available, but you may need to select it as follows:
1. In the New Mail mode, click on View.
2. Click on All Headers -- it should
now have a check mark in front of it. This adds a third address line
to the e-mail form for BCC addresses.
Be courteous and use Blind Carbon Copy for ALL multiple addresses.
A2. Links about Using Blind Carbon Copy.
A3.How to Clean up your email prior to Forwarding.One of the irritants of email is getting a forward of a forward of a forward of a forward. Here is how you can avoid passing on this email irritant to someone else.
1. Scroll through all the forwards and when you finally get to the inititial message you wish to forward, highlight all you wish to forward.
2. Go to Edit on your Menu and click on Edit and then on Copy.
3. Go to a new email page and type in the name of your recipient.
4. Place your cursor in the text area.
5. Go back to Edit and this time click on Paste. This places the forward info into a fresh email without the endless forwards.
If the attachment is an image instead of text.
1. Right click on the image
2. Left click on Save As.
3. In the Save In box, click on the triangle to get a drop down menu and click on Desktop.
4. Give the image a file name and Save it as a jpg image.
5. In the new email page click on Attach.
6. Select Desktop and click on the image you saved and then click on. Attach. It sounds complicated, but it really is not and it takes very little time. If you really care about your recipients, you'll do this.
7. If you want to save the image permanently, open it and re-save it in My Pictures which is found under My Documents.
8. If you want to delete it from your Desktop, Right click on the image icon, then Left click on Delete. It is that simple.
To delete the endless lists of Email Addresses on a forward, do this:
1. Click on Forward.
2. Highlight all those addresses.
3. Hit the Delete key.
That Is all there is to it, so be
email friendly and always delete all those addresses when forwarding.
You should not be passing on all
those addresses without their permission.
Courtesy Dave George, Author and
Webmaster of the E-Cheer
web site.
A4. Links to Software used to Remove Arrows in Emails.