You just checked mail, and found a message you would like to send out to all your friends and contacts on your address book. So you click CC and punch in all those email addresses.
You hit send… and your email gets delivered.
Wonderful, you just wanted to share something funny; I know I get a lot of that all the time.
Now here is a situation, one person you sent that message to, wanted to return the favor to you and send you an equally amusing email. Now for whatever reason, whether on purpose or not, that person clicks “reply to all” instead of “reply; clicks send; and that email gets delivered to you and everybody else you CC’d on the original email.
What has happened here is email spam, chances are not everybody on your address book probably knows each other, so it would be a surprise for one of these people to receive unsolicited email from someone he doesn’t know, and from scrutiny of that email, it turns out it was originally sent by you.
Of course, you are not the spammer, but the person who replied to you and inadvertently sent a message to everybody else on your address book. Anybody who had received that email from that person can cry out “spam”.
Word of advise… if you need to send out a mass message to people who probably do not know each other, use the BCC feature or blind carbon copy so, your recipients do not see the other people you sent out the mass message to, and worse not be able to send those people unsolicited email.
Be careful, spam is such an issue for some people.
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August 1st, 2007 at 11:38 am
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