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Blind carbon-copies not so blind??

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If anyone is interested, I just posted this piece of techno-ranting on
my web site  (sort of blog style, but sorry, no "talk back"
functionality).

You know how very often you receive a mass e-mail where your address
is just one of the many ones in the CC list, instead of using BCC?
Well, people are irresponsible and do that, right?

Would you believe me if I told you that the same thing happened even
though the sender DID use BCC??  That is, that you receive an e-mail
where your address appears along with 40 or 50 others in the headers,
even though the sender DID use blind-carbon-copy for all those 40 or
50 addresses?

And if you do believe me, would you care to venture a guess as to
which piece of software would be capable of doing something that
unbelievably stupid?

(Hint:  the list of BCC'd addresses appears in a custom header
X-MS-ExchangeCrossPremises-BCC)

http://www.mochima.com/articles/bcc_with_20-20_vision.html

Carlos
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Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? moreno_news@mailinator.com - 2011-09-08 13:01 -0700
  Re: Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-09-08 22:58 +0000
    Re: Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? moreno_news@mailinator.com - 2011-09-08 16:37 -0700
    Re: Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? Rolf Muth <rolf.muth@web.de> - 2011-09-09 06:45 +0200
      Re: Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? moreno_news@mailinator.com - 2011-09-09 07:37 -0700
        Re: Blind carbon-copies not so blind?? jason123 <nospam_aqie4203@live.cn.invalid> - 2011-09-19 05:11 -0500

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