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Wolf 2uk		#41	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 73 (31 May, 2008 9:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Where Julia do you get that format, mines totally different on Outlook express?
Sombience		#42	[-]
Posts: 400 (31 May, 2008 9:36 AM) Super Sprøde Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ohh, she's using Microsoft Outlook, which is a different entity to Outlook Express. The CC and BCC are consistent in both programs if I recall correctly, though it's been ages since I've used Express myself...
Julia333		#43	[-]
Posts: 50007 (31 May, 2008 1:59 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	What a twit I am! I assumed Bcc in Outlook and OE is by default but obviously not! Okay, to display the Bcc box: Open a new e-mail message. Click the arrow next to Options to display the Options menu Click Bcc. Wolf, hopefully, it's similar in OE. If not go HERE for instructions.
Julia333		#44	[-]
Posts: 59295 (29 Oct, 2008 4:56 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	to continue to raise people's awareness. I just received a fwd mass round robin email from another friend who obviously isn't aware, with my private email address listed in the CC field alongside other people's. This is a long thread so to save you looking back, this issue is about the following, which everyone who uses email should be aware of. Email privacy and protection using Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) When sending an email to a number of people, never list them in "to:" or "cc:" field otherwise all recipients will receive each other's private email address. Also, circulating email addresses like this is wonderful for spammers and potential virus attacks! To protect your recipients' email addresses always use the Bcc: field. This works just like the Carbon Copy (cc:) field, except that the email addresses are not forwarded to each recipient. See Instructions for using Bccfor Outlook Express, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
Dartmistress		#45	[-]
Registered Member Posts: 9556 (29 Oct, 2008 9:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Spam Emails Yuk! I have just thrown out nearly 750 of them.
chellebell02		#46	[-]
Posts: 1133 (29 Oct, 2008 11:55 PM) Ditto Belle Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	When sending an email to a number of people, never list them in "to:" or "cc:" field otherwise all recipients will receive each other's private email address. Also, circulating email addresses like this is wonderful for spammers and potential virus attacks! To protect your recipients' email addresses always use the Bcc: field. This works just like the Carbon Copy (cc:) field, except that the email addresses are not forwarded to each recipient. I had never thought of this! Makes a lot of sense though. I knew that Bcc, would blindly forward without the address being forward, but never put the two together in my brain. I will do this from now on. Also Julia, if you don't mind, could I copy this and send it on to a couple of my contacts who continually send mass emails? This is great advice!
Dune Finkleberry		#47	[-]
Posts: 134 (30 Oct, 2008 1:00 AM) Ditto's Bad Boy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I regularly use BCC in my mails when I mail to a group of people. Some people may not appreciate everyone on their list knowing their email addy. Also an excellent idea for controlling that "crap" mail that seems to find it's way into everyone's mailbox. People don't realize that if you send something that's really hilarious, it gets forwarded by maybe half that crowd to their friends. Eventually it may find its way to a spammer who has no problem making a quick buck by sending their junk mail on to the people he's saved over the years. Further he can sell those email addresses to other spammers that will send you gallons of stuff. Further, as soon as you open many of these emails, the code within the email senses that you opened it, & let's the spammer know that you are a valid email & that you are silly or curious enough to check it out. If you do open it. NEVER click any links as many of them carry Trojans, which can carry far worse problems than just junk mail. NEVER unsubscribe from them as you won't unsubscribe, you'll just verify that you got the mail. I regularly use PopTray. It's an excellent little freeware program that will enable you to check your POP server email, &/or delete your junk mail. Download PopTray 3.2 HERE.
Julia333		#48	[-]
Posts: 59318 (30 Oct, 2008 1:50 AM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Spam Emails Yuk! I have just thrown out nearly 750 of them. - Irene Crimes, Irene, I think it's time for you to ditch that address and set up a new one! Dune, you're absolutely right in all you say, and thanks so much for the link. I will take a look at it tomorrow. Also Julia, if you don't mind, could I copy this and send it on to a couple of my contacts who continually send mass emails? This is great advice! - Michelle Oh Michelle, please do! Please spread the word because anyone who uses email really needs to know this. The more people who apply this simple rule, less spam gets circulated. In fact feel free to use my letter which I posted to all the recipients names which were listed alongside mine one day when I flipped my lid. Post # 25 HERE Next time a friend, who refuses to listen to your request to use Bcc, broadcast your PRIVATE email address to every Tom, !*+% and Harry, alongside other recipients, simply do a forward to those recipients, but replacing the original forward message with my letter (signing off with your own name, of course. ). That will embarrass the guilty culprit who sent the round robin and teach them a lesson not to do it again.
chellebell02		#49	[-]
Posts: 1393 ( 3 Nov, 2008 12:53 AM) Ditto Belle Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I definitely will do this, thanks Julia
Dune Finkleberry		#50	[-]
Posts: 1960 (23 Dec, 2008 5:17 PM) Ditto's Bad Boy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I got this from HERE. Below it is copied & pasted. ________________________________________________________ If you get a popup in your browser telling you you've got a trojan, do you want to fix it? Don't trust it. Open your anti virus detector & scan from there. Many times the popup requires you to download a small program which is a trojan. The internet is a wild & wooly place. Do not trust everything anything you see there. I once knew this highly religious guy that I work with. He was having trouble with popups of naked women in very foul poses. I told him that someone was using his computer to surf the porn sites, which are known to carry such trojans. He wouldn't accept that his son.... a good church goer would ever do such a thing. The kid is 15 & probably has no sex education.... so he gets it from the web. That was my theory, though he'd never believe it. He finally ended up taking it into a computer shop, & I think they fixed it & probably told him the same thing that I did, because now his son is a little bit more restricted in where he goes. I suggest Mcafee Siteadvisor. It's free & made by a respected antivirus company that tests Web sites for spyware, spam and online scams. It's not an end game fix, but rather a help to detect scams & spyware. You need weapons in your arsenal. It sucks, but load your weapons.

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