CC and BCC Emails

“Cc” stands for “Carbon Copy” or sometimes “Courtesy Copy”. This is where the address of the second recipients or other people who are interested is put in. These are the people to who the e-mail isn't addressed to but they may still be interested in the what's in the mail. For example: if an employee e-mails another employee about a department matter, and feels that the department head should also know about the matter, so he CCs the e-mail to the head. “BCC” stands for “Blind Carbon Copy” or sometimes “Blind Courtesy Copy”. This is where the address of third recipients is put in. All the other recipients: first, second and third won’t be able to see the e-mail addresses in the BCC field. Hence, the fact that the e-mail is also sent to these people is concealed. The BCC field recipients are secretly being told about the communication, without others knowing. It is common 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. For example: if an employee e-mails another employee about something inappropriate, the second employee can reply to the e-mail but keep the manager in BCC, so that the manager may be aware of the first employee indiscretion. For example, a department head is implementing a new policy in his department. He will e-mail the manager the details of the policy, while he can CC the employees in the department, so that they may also be aware of the policy. The department head may also BCC the heads of other departments, or the cooperative level executives, so that they may also be aware of the policy change. However, he may not want to share the e-mail addresses of the other heads with all the employees.