"JG" == Jacques Gauthier <jacques_g(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> writes:
>> Not always true (see my previous comments on this)
>>
>> > if the receiver isn't my address (or one ot the mailing list I
>> > subscribe to then it's spam
>>
>> At home, usually true, but not always. What if someone respons
>> to somthing you say on the list, and you are in the Cc: field
>> instead of the To: field? (Ok, so shame on them for sending to
>> the list AND Cc:ing you..)
JG> A clarification: By RECEIVER i mean:
You don't need to shout, we can hear you perfectly well.
JG> TO:
JG> CC:
JG> BCC:
Did you actually ever see a BCC: in any e-mail message
you ever received???
You shouldn't. That's the trick - and the reason, why we use it.
To send a message to (in this case: many) people,
that don't need to know of each others.
The reasons for that are obvious.
JG> I know that procmail dosen't currently handle BCC but a UNIX script
JG> can be written to do so. I'm sorry my earlier wasn't more precice in
JG> definitions.