When should you use the BCC feature of an email program? I only permit three uses for myself:
- Never; it’s bad form. I mentioned that in my last post.
- When I am CC’ing a task tracking application like Asana (which I love).
- When I want to spare some of the recipients any future follow-up e-mails, in which case I announce at the top of the e-mail “(moved so-and-so to BCC)”. That way they know they were on the BCC, and everybody knows they were BCC’d and didn’t disappear off of the thread (and I’m subtly sending a message that follow-ups may not be necessary).
Ok, I guess that’s really only two uses. 🙂