Emailing Multiple Addresses

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's 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 BCC 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-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 copy" (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 "CC" line separated 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 CC box
within one set of parentheses. This turns all of the addresses into "bcc"
or blind copies.

For Outlook Express, a bcc 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 BCC for ALL multiple addresses.

Courtesy Dave George, Author of the E-Cheer List - Webmaster of the following web site: E-Cheer .

(Blind Carbon Copy)

AOL

Outlook Express

Netscape Messenger

Eudora

Yahoo Mail

Hotmail

MS-Outlook

MSN

Clean up Email before 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.

(A)
1) Go through all the forwards, and when you finally get the inititial
forward, highlight the actual forward
2) Click on Edit then on Copy
3) Go to a new email page and type in the name of your recipient
4) Click in the text area to place your cursor
5) Click on Edit, but 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, do this:

(B)
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 Documents.
8) If you want to delete it from your Desktop, RIGHT click on the
image icon, then left click on Delete -- it's that simple.

To delete the endless lists of e-addresses on a forward, do this:

(C)
1) Click on Forward
2) Highlight all those addresses
3) Hit the Delete key -- that's 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 of the E-Cheer List - Webmaster of the following web site: E-Cheer.