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Thread ID: 63437	2005-11-09 21:36:00	Collecting email addresses	Scouse (83)	PC World Chat

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403005	2005-11-10 03:01:00	Thanks folks. We went skidding wildly off course there for a while but C managed to point us right again. Just give me time to digest the offerings from Foxy and I'll be back. :rolleyes:	Scouse (83)
403006	2005-11-10 06:07:00	I have long believed that email addresses entered in to the To: window, particularly to groups of club members, are in some way harvested for spam purposes. And that if they are in the Bcc: window they cannot be so harvested. Is there truth in this and where can I verify it to convince elderly and pig-headed old club members that they really need to change their ways? Any help appreciated thanks.Viri harvest Emails found in the system, so an email sent to email-of-to-infectected-toy to: 10 other addresses cc: 10 more address message body Forward 20 addresses forward forward 20 more Content: Some BS about the weather in spain Is effectivly giving some nasty little trojan 60 addresses! However if all those addresses were BCC, theyd be safe	personthingy (1670)
403007	2005-11-10 20:36:00	You should be using the BCC rather than TO field for bulk emails for privacy reasons more than anything else. It's possible that some people could get a bit agro if their email is made public like that. Hope this helps ;)	Mary (6534)
403008	2005-11-10 22:42:00	Yes, thank you Mary. You and I are standing on the same side of the fence. I have long believed in and used Bcc:. However, I have so far found many people and sites which agree, often verbosely, without sourcing the "fact" that they are preaching. My original query was trying to find a factual source for the belief not a reiteration of the belief. I still have a number of sites to review....... My colleagues are of the generation where the fact that something looks like a duck, walks and quacks like a duck does not prove that it is a duck...... thanks.	Scouse (83)
403009	2005-11-10 22:53:00	2 things i totaly don't appreciate Getting an Email with more email addresses than content Knowing that theres a heap more of them gone out with my address in it somewhere.	personthingy (1670)
403010	2005-11-11 00:01:00	The thing is,we professionals can't appreciate the difficulty amateurs have with sort of thing. :D	Cicero (40)
403011	2005-11-11 00:30:00	I received a forwarded eMail last night which had over 50 addys in the TO field and what looked like thousands in the body. The subject was "Do you know this little girl" she, apparently, was found after the tsunami in Thailand with no memory of who she was. Very sad, if true. Mass mails like this can easily be used to harvest addys and sometimes it is there only purpose. I erred on the side of caution and referred the senders to this thread, using the BCC field of course. :thumbs: You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?	Barnzy (6015)
403012	2005-11-11 00:36:00	I received a forwarded eMail last night which had over 50 addys in the TO field and what looked like thousands in the body . The subject was "Do you know this little girl" she, apparently, was found after the tsunami in Thailand with no memory of who she was . Very sad, if true . Jeebus, that's an old one . . . ( . snopes . com/photos/tsunami/lostgirl . asp" target="_blank">www . snopes . com)	pixeldust (6619)
403013	2005-11-11 00:37:00	While were on the subject. If you leave the TO field blank and use BCC the recipient sees <undisclosed recipients> and some use this as a spam filter,but if you put, say, Barnzys' Friends, in the TO field and BCC the rest, the mail bounces. Or am I doing somthing strange here?	Barnzy (6015)
403014	2005-11-11 00:41:00	Hmmmmmmm....... Just as I posted that my test mail came through. It seems that the TO field can contain anything but the server will bounce back one copy as undeliverable. :nerd:	Barnzy (6015)
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