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Is the content being mailed the same? are you mailing the same people again before and after alex was created? are you split-testing -- 1/2 recipients get the email without alex in CC? You might need some more experiments to attribute it to pure CC.

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Content is the same, but that's obviously subjective. The conversations were either all with alex or without, meaning, no reply requests were sent to the pre-alex mail with alex in cc and I haven't split tested.

how about the recipients? If they had an email from you before (part of the 5K set), then might be more open to replying to the second one (in the 2k set) even if Alex was not on cc out of guilt?

Most of the recipients are contacted on relatively regular basis (some daily, some weekly, some monthly).

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