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Best thing to do is generally.

Direct it to one person who is the responsible party and BCC everyone else. If it's a mass e-mail, then BCC everyone. I think it all starts from the top.

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No! Please no! BCCs break everyones filters/rules. Some percentage of derailed threads end with "Moving DL to BCC" which drives me NUTS because I get this message in my Inbox which throws me off my rhythm while I try to figure out what the heck it is talking about.

Personally, I think BCC should be eliminated. I think that every reasonable use case for BCC can be accomplished with a send and then a separate forward. Is there something I'm missing?

My school used BCC to keep the name of the all student mailing list secret. Wise decision until the secretary forgot to put in in the right field.

I feel the opposite way: eliminate CC: and keep BCC:. People use CC: way too often when a BCC: is more appropriate. Unfortunately, the worst abusers are the most clueless and least likely to change.

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