Blind Lists
There are two different types of so-called "blind addressing" of
messages: "blind carbon copies" and "blind lists". The BCC: field
allows you to add recipients to your message just like those who are
CC'd, but the normal recipients will not see that the BCC: recipients
were copied on the message, their replies will not go to the blind
recipients, and the blind recipients cannot (easily) reply to the
message.
The second type of blind mailing is actually called a "group address
list", although it is commonly referred to as a "blind list". The
format of this type of address is
where the "phrase" is any English phrase of one or more words, and the
"address_list" consists of one or more addresses separated by commas. The
recipients of a message addressed in this fashion will see simply
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phrase : ;
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so when they reply to the message, their reply will come only to the
sender (or the Reply-To: field, if one was specified), rather than
going to all the recipients of the original list. For example, to use a
group address list for the "friends" alias you would type:
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To: My best friends: friends;
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This type of group address is very useful for sending mail to groups of
related people, such as all the people working on a particular research
project.
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