Robert Elz wrote:
... I would include a sentence or two about the risks of using dcc
when really sending a bcc (as opposed to a cc to myself).
Perhaps something like
Note that the users listed in the dcc field receive no explicit
indication that others who received the message are not aware that
a copy was sent to them. This can cause blind recipients to
inadvertently reply to all of the sighted recipients of the
original message, revealing that they received a blind copy.
On the other hand, a normal reply to a message sent via a bcc field
will generate a reply only to the sender of the original message,
it takes extra effort in most mailers to reply to the included
message, and so would usually only be done deliberately, rather
than by accident.
Or perhaps an abbreviated version of that...
Hmmm... we wouldn't want to actually *explain* anything in a manpage,
would we? ;-) Seriously, that extra info looks good to me. We might be
able to do without the last sentence, though; I think people will figure
it out pretty quickly.
Jerry
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