The other day, I was in a customer’s home on a service call.  When I was finished, they paid me with a check.  However, they didn’t handwrite the check, they put it in their typewriter and typed the check.

Many young people have no idea how we used typewriters in our daily lives, way back when!  Something else happened today that reminded me of using carbon paper to make copies of whatever we were typing.  At the bottom of a letter, we would put cc:  and list the names of those who were getting a carbon copy.  However, sometimes we made a copy and sent it to someone who we did not list under cc:.  We called those copies blind carbon copies (bcc:).

What reminded me was that I receive an email from a friend and there were a ton of people listed in the To: field.  That meant everyone could see everyone else’s email address.  This email broke my #1 rule:  when you send an email to a group of people who don’t know each other, always use the BCC: field.

If you’re not familiar with how to use BCC:, I suggest you watch our Email 101 webinar video.