14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo! has decided that its mail client is popular enough to start receiving attention and tutorials in massive numbers, so they have started the Yahoo! Mail blog not so long ago to cover everything there is to know about the various features that are available. I haven't found anything worthy of noting, so I just thought to myself that the "yes, I did know that clicking the Send button will send a message" type of feedback that I'd be sending the team would be mostly redundant and not so helpful overall.
Today, they came and explained the BCC function and tab, and I must confess that despite having a vague idea of what it did, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. That's mostly because of CC, which stands for Carbon Copy, and I don't understand why. I get that anyone listed in that field will receive a copy of the message, but why is that "Carbon"? No idea.
BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy and the difference between this and the CC feature is that the BCC recipients are invisible to all other recipients of the message. That's useful when forwarding messages and you don't want to share your entire contact list with any one particular recipient, he'll just think that you cooked it up especially for him. So sweet of you.
I could think of some other times when this feature comes in handy, like when you're writing to your girlfriends and you're letting them all know that you won't be making it to lunch that day, in case you had them all mixed up and your schedule just highlighted three lunch breaks with your girlfriends. That's a tight spot the BCC will get you out of in a second, so you might give this option some second thought before ignoring it as you've done this far.