Messages in this thread | | | Subject | WARNING: check your destination addresses!! (was Re: Unsolicited Internet mail) | From | (Kevin Buhr) | Date | 28 May 1997 11:01:44 -0500 |
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Troy Morrison <troy@v-com.com> writes: [ . . . something he carbon copies to the US President's office . . . ]
When replying to an email, it's always important to triple check the list of destination addresses your mail client has generated. This is especially important for replies to emails received from a list, where the original list of destination addresses might be awfully weird.
It's terribly easy to forget, and, as we can see here, even pretty sophisticated computer geeks like ourselves can fall into this particular trap.
Now, we all know that some $5/hour summer student charged with actually *reading* "president@whitehouse.gov" correspondence has already crashed her Windoze Internet Exploiter trying to drag all incoming mail to the "Printer Setup" icon, so no harm has been done, but if Troy had half-wittedly joked about bomb threats, his inadvertent "CC" might have landed him in some lukewarm water.
Additionally, it's not a bad idea to avoid carbon copying "open letters" to lists and/or sending them to newsgroups with the "CC" header intact. Send a separate copy instead.
Kevin <buhr@stat.wisc.edu>
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