Blind carbon copy

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A blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) is a message copy sent to an additional recipient, without the primary recipient being made aware. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email. "Bcc" can also stand for "blind courtesy copy" as a backronym of the original abbreviation. In some circumstances, the typist creating a paper correspondence must ensure that multiple recipients of such a document do not see the names of other recipients. To achieve this, the typist can: Add the names in a second step to each copy, without carbon paper; Set the ribbon not to strike the paper, which leaves names off the top copy (but may leave letter impressions on the paper). With email, recipients of a message are specified using addresses in any of these three fields: To: Primary recipients Cc: Carbon copy to secondary recipients Bcc: Blind carbon copy to tertiary recipients who receive the message. The primary and secondary recipients cannot see the tertiary recipients...

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