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Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322

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Sirius about the Bcc: field:

> It stands for "blind carbon copy" and thus should not see
> any recipient of the message apart from themselves. If
> they start seeing everyone else on Bcc in the message, it
> is no longer a "blind" carbon copy. IMHO

The relevant RFCs (822, 2822, 5322) allow both approaches:

  1.  each blind recipient can see only himself in the Bcc:
      line,

  2.  each blind recipient can see all the other blind
      recipients on the Bcc: line.

It it said with most clairyt in RFC 822, section 4.5.3:

   <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-4.5.3>

The latter RFCs are more liberal, but their language is more
formal. In 3.6.3 they say the copy sent to the blind
recipients may contain a Bcc: line, but do not specify the
contents of that line.

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Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-07-25 17:59 +0300
  Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-07-25 17:32 -0500
    Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-07-26 01:46 +0300
      Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-07-25 21:03 -0500
    Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2024-07-26 22:40 +1000
      Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-07-28 00:35 +0300
  Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Sirius <sirius@trudheim.com> - 2024-07-26 16:09 +0200
    Re: Bcc: according to RFC 5322 Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2024-07-28 00:43 +0300

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