Re: BCC not working?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2001.05.18 18:53:58 +0100 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On 2001.05.18 17:28:59 +0100 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 

> > that's nice to happen and sounds the Right 
> > way to do it but i've received messages from less enlightned muas that
> > just send 1 message to everybody. prolly to save bandwith while sending
> > those wonderfull 5M ms attachments (did i blame MS ? oh my :))
> 
> That's the disadvantage - a huge message which is Bcc'ed.
> Suggests the need for an option to control the Bcc behaviour.
> Theres three possibilities.
> 1) No Bcc header at all.
> 2) An empty Bcc: header sent to Bcc: recipients only
> 3) A Bcc header listing Bcc recipients sent to Bcc recipients only
> 
> Perhaps balsa should implement a fourth category of recipient, like Bcc
> but *never* listed in a header.
> 
Sending a blank Bcc: line to everyone springs to mind. receivers in bcc
know they are not getting it by 'computer' error' but don't know about
each other (which is a nice part of *blind* copy). receivers in to/cc
otoh would know there was bcc recipients which is not so blind. 
decisions decisions :)

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