Most people when sending email send using to line, some even venture to cc line (carbon copy) but very few venture into realms of Bcc line (blind carbon copy).

The answer is usually because they are blissfully unaware of existence of Bcc line. Most email clients including Outlook Express and IncrediMail do not show Bcc line on default new email form when composing an email.

To Use Bcc line you must normally first enable it. These screen shots show how to enable Bcc in Outlook Express . The process for Incredimail is similar.

What is Bcc Line and why Use it?

The Bcc line (blind copy)is used to send email to someone without other recipients of email being aware that it was sent to those recipients. It is effectively a way of hiding email recipients from each other. Its main use is when sending email to mailing lists ( email groups).

You see, I actually didn’t realize for a while I was actually making situation worse. You ever receive those spam emails where you KNOW for sure you NEVER signed up to receive their emails and then they provide an unsubscribe link down bottom?

Anyways, here I was clicking unsubscribe button on all these annoying spam emails thinking I was getting my email address removed from their database where all I was doing was confirming that my email address was active and I was reading their spam emails.