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Cc (carbon copy) recipients are visible to all email recipients, while Bcc (blind carbon copy) recipients are not. The To field is for primary recipients, the Cc field is for those to be publicly informed, and the Bcc field is for discreetly informing recipients. Bcc is commonly used for large or unfamiliar recipient lists to maintain privacy.

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Bcc vs

Cc (carbon copy) recipients are visible to all email recipients, while Bcc (blind carbon copy) recipients are not. The To field is for primary recipients, the Cc field is for those to be publicly informed, and the Bcc field is for discreetly informing recipients. Bcc is commonly used for large or unfamiliar recipient lists to maintain privacy.

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Bcc vs.

Cc
In e-mail terminology, Cc stands for "carbon copy" and Bcc stands for
"Blind carbon copy". The difference between Cc and Bcc is that
carbon copy (CC) recipients are visible to all other recipients whereas
those who are BCCed are not visible to anyone.
To specify the recipients, an e-mail message can contain addresses in
any of the 3 following fields:

 To: field recipients are the audience of the message


 CC: field recipients are others whom the author wishes to publicly
inform of the message (carbon copy)
 BCC: field recipients are those being discreetly or surreptitiously
informed of the communication and cannot be seen by any of the other
addressees.

It is common practice to use the BCC: field when addressing a very


long list of recipients, or a list of recipients that should not (necessarily)
know each other, e.g. in mailing lists.

Comparison chart

Bcc versus Cc comparison chart

Bcc Cc
Sight -Receiver cannot see Bcc -Receiver can see Cc

Replying -Bcc's cannot see the receiver's reply -Cc's cannot see the receiver's reply

Example of CC vs BCC
From: Frank Sinatra
To: Kurt Cobain
Cc: Bob Dylan; Jim Morrison
Bcc: Mark Knopfler; Paul McCartney
In the above example, all recipients of the email (including Mark Knopfler and
Paul McCartney) will see the following email header information when they
receive the email:
From: Frank Sinatra
To: Kurt Cobain
Cc: Bob Dylan; Jim Morrison
This means that none of the recipients will know who the Bcc recipients are.
Each of the BCCed recipients will, of course, realize that they were on BCC but
they will not know who else was on BCC.

Using Bcc to Preserve Privacy

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