Every time I receive an email that the sender used the To: or  cc: field to list all of the recipients, I start to get loads of SPAM within a few days. Each time you use the To: and cc: areas with multiple email addresses you are giving each person in this list the email address of everyone else you are sending your email to. Why is this important? Consider this, suppose someone you sent an email to (using the to: or cc: areas of your email) had an email spambot or email Trojan on their computer? You just placed everyone you sent this email to on a SPAMMERS email list. Now that was not a nice thing for you to do! Even worse, suppose someone you sent the email to had a email virus program on their computer... You just basically sent everyone you know an email virus from the infected computer which will be addressed from someone they know. The chances are high that they will open the email coming from someone they know and now they have a virus complements of you!!! A pretty bad thing to do to the people you call friends. If they knew you did this they might not be calling you fa riend for long!!! All of this can be done without the infected computer owner even knowing it is being done, so play it safe.

    Thanks to some people who did not use the bcc field to send me emails (who will go unnamed), I am getting loads of spam (over 100 a day of ED, porn and other types) and the spammers are using my email address to send spam to others in the likelihood that they will open the email from someone they know. They do this so that they won't get blamed for the spam or viruses and the one whos email address appears in the email does get blamed. This is not a courteous thing to do. I know I do not want my email address given out to people I did not intentionally want to have it. Just think of how you would feel if someone just started giving out your phone number to everyone they knew whether they knew you or not. That would be a serious invasion of privacy, even if your number was in the phone directory (phone book).

    Consider using the Bcc field. It will send a separate email to each individual's email address with only their email address in the email. This is much safer than broadcasting all the email addresses across the Internet. In this way each individual will not have access to every persons email address you sent in your email. This email courtesy will go a long way to help rid the Internet of people being placed on SPAMMER email list without their knowledge and the spread of viruses to unsuspecting users.

    This type of thing happens all the time (basically each time I receive one of these types of emails). All it takes is one person's computer on the list to not be secure and everyone is getting SPAM of one type or the other. Check your email and see if you are getting returned emails that are undeliverable. You will notice that you did not send these emails out but they all have your email address as the return address!!! You can thank one of the people who sent out emails using a list of email addresses with your email address in the to: or cc: field.

    So tell the people who are broadcasting your email address to the Internet TO STOP IT!!!! Send them an email asking them to use bcc for their email list or take you off their email list. Protect yourself from these threats from people who just DON'T KNOW or just DON'T CARE... You will find out which category they are in if you still get more emails without them using the bcc field of the email. I have had one person respond when asked to read this document "So you want me to take you off my email list?". He totally disregarded the whole purpose of the request and went straight to being offended. This shows that they would rather take me off their list than to do the right thing by using the bcc field. This type of thinking is very dangerous... Not to themselves, but to everyone else and it would seem to be all they care about is themselves.

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