Mailing list privacy

by Ed Sawicki

There are times when you want to send an email to a group of people, but you don't want the recipients to know the other recipients. This is easy to achieve by using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) feature of your email program.

In Google's Gmail for example, instead of entering your recipients into the To: line, you'd click the BCC in the upper right corner. This will open a BCC line, as shown in the image below. You'd enter your recipients there.

If you send email to the same recipients periodically, you might find it easier to create a group of recipients. Then when you want to send an email, you enter the name of the group in the BCC line.