[Coco] My email was hacked

[Aaron Wolfe]

For future reference, you really don't want to use the To: field for
an address list, especially a list of unrelated email addresses such
as this.  Always use BCC.

By putting all these email addresses in an email to each other, you've
set the stage for all of them to be sent spam/virus emails if any of
them become infected.  Additionally, all of the email addresses in
your To: field will probably show up on the web in list archives, and
of couse every list member now has all of these addresses in their
mail client, further exposing these folks to potential spam or virus
backwash.

Anyway... BCC is your friend :)  Never To: unless there is some reason
all parties should know that the others have been sent the message
(and even then, CC is usually more appropriate).  Putting your own
email address in the To:, and the email list in BCC is the standard
practice.

-Aaron


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Mike Warns <mikewarns at yahoo.com> wrote:
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