Why use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) choice for a recipient in your email? or How do I protect the privacy of my email recipients by not giving their email address to everyone else that is receiving the Mass email?

• If you don't want every recipient of your mass email to see the other recipient's email addresses, you use the BCC button to enter all the email addresses.

Here is how you activate the BCC button...

When you open a new email in Outlook, this is the window that you see... (please scroll down for further instruction)

These are your choices for recipients of your email:

• TO:  to choose a destination for your email, you select the 'To...'  button and you pick a recipient from the address book.
• CC:  you might want to send a 'carbon copy' to another recipient
• BCC: let's say that you want to send the same email to several recipients and you don't want recipient B to see recipient A's email address. That is where the 'BCC' (blind carbon copy) comes into use. In this example the BCC is not showing.
• You might ask, well how do I bring BCC into view so I can use it.
• Here's how, click on the CC
• When your address book comes into view, so will your choices, TO, CC, BCC as shown below.

• Pick your recipients the same way that you do when you select them for TO and CC.
• Type in the name in the 'find' field,
• Highlight the recipient(s) and click on BCC 
• The name now appears in the BCC section of Message Recipients
• Click OK

• Now the BCC appears in the email
• click SEND to send the more 'private' email,
• Jeff, Tom and Jon all get the email, but each one does not know that the email was sent to the others.
• More importantly each recipient does not have the other recipients email address displayed in their email.
  This might be of more significance if you were sending the email to several companies at once.
• Hence more privacy is attained.