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Title: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: forHIM on September 04, 2008, 08:31:51 AM

When sending orders, please use BCC for the CO/XO/3rd/4th people.  This will cut down on the possibility of one of us getting a virus and sending out spam to 50 to 100 other players.  Please respect your fellow players and start using BCC.  Standard procedure would be to

1. Set the to line to your email address
2. Set all the other players as BCC's.

As the orders / communication items I've seen recently include everyone's email address on the To line, it is too easy for a mail bot / virus to grab them and ruin a lot of players days with extra spam, etc. 

Thanks for reading this mini-rant.

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: RATTFINK on September 04, 2008, 08:42:17 AM

BCC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Carbon_Copy

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: 68Raptor on September 04, 2008, 08:56:17 AM

Great idea forHIM. Might want to update the mailto link on the ahevents.org site to reflect this (if possible) as a weekly reminder. Maybe add something to the same page about copy and paste to bcc line if using that option.

 :rock

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: forHIM on September 04, 2008, 09:24:48 AM

Thanks 68Raptor -- web site has been updated to have the mailto link use BCC and a note has been put at the top of the page.

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: 68Raptor on September 04, 2008, 09:55:06 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: ghostdancer on October 08, 2008, 10:03:40 AM

Ignore my original post. Just realized this was aimed at CiCs and not CMs.

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: forHIM on October 08, 2008, 10:44:48 AM

GD,

As for paper trail, are you looking for something you can send to SLED saying yes you did send it to XYZ?  If I send a message with a number of BCC people on it, both my outlook box and my gmail accounts show in my sent folders items who the message went to with the BCC people listed.  However, when I forward that message to someone else, the BCC stuff is not shown.  So if I needed to prove to SLED I sent the message to XYZ squad, I'd have to do a screenshot of the message in my browser/outlook message.

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: ghostdancer on October 08, 2008, 12:49:37 PM

Woops, missed that you said CiC .. obviously things are different for CMs. ;)

Ignore

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: ghostdancer on October 08, 2008, 12:53:30 PM

Okay, will  dig into Outlook to see if it is a configuration issue on my end since I am not seeing the BCC list in the cc of the message I have in my sent folder.

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: TUK on October 08, 2008, 04:20:17 PM

My orders are ready, now we have a sending problem? someone tell me what to do in a SIMPLE fassion! :rock

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: CHAPPY on February 19, 2009, 06:40:34 AM

please use  BCC CIC's
 :aok

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: RATTFINK on February 19, 2009, 11:22:53 AM

AGREED!  I received about 6 replies to a FSO order yesterday

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: CHAPPY on February 19, 2009, 11:48:42 AM

i have 12 emails since yesterday

Title: Re: CiC: please use BCC
Post by: Sled on February 21, 2009, 12:02:47 AM

Quote from: RATTFINK on February 19, 2009, 11:22:53 AM

AGREED!  I received about 6 replies to a FSO order yesterday

Those were legitimate replies.