Email is one of the most used medium of send and receiving messages today, it relies on a network.
The wide range use of this technology has made it a necessity that we look at a few features and functionalities associated with it.
While sending emails, there are three sender options, namely: To, CC and Bcc.
To is the primary recipient of the email, while CC is the carbon copy.
In this post, I will be explaining the "blind carbon copy" also known as Bcc sending option.
The blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) feature allows the sender of a message to keep the identity of the person listed in the Bcc field hidden from the rest of the recipients. This idea was first used to paper correspondence, but it is now also applicable to email.
Tertiary recipients will receive a blind carbon copy of the message. Tertiary recipients are unnoticed by primary and secondary recipients. 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 not the email addresses of other tertiary recipients, depending on the email software.
When addressing a very long list of recipients, or a list of recipients who should not (necessarily) know each other, such as in mailing lists, the Bcc: field is commonly used.
This can be a security measure as it ensure a third party as a backup copy which is unknown to the primary receiver, this means the receiver can not modify or deny a content in the email
