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Blind Carbon Copy - technical definition

An electronic mail header address field. The email message is sent to the addressees in this field in addition to the original recipient(s) in the To or CC fields without revealing the content of the BCC field to any of the recipients. This technique is frequently used for distribution lists in which the recipients should remain unaware of who else received the message.

See Also: Electronic Mail or Email.

Webnox Corporation. Blind Carbon Copy: Dictionary Entry and Meaning. [Online, 2003.] Webnox Corporation Website.http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/ blind+carbon+copy.

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