I dislike e-mail forwards and mass mailings, 
and rarely read them, deleting unread anything with FW: in the subject line. I especially dislike seeing my precious e-mail address clustered in with strangers in the To: line.
I try to control where my e-mail address goes, and I try to limit the number of people who have access to it. It ought to be a simple e-mail courtesy that we not send messages to everyone in our Contacts folder or e-mail address book if doing so reveals all the addresses.
Here is a simple way to avoid doing so. If you must send a message to multiple addressees, put your own address in the To: field, to mail the message to yourself. In the BCC: field – Blind Carbon Copy – enter all the addresses of your unwashed hordes. As far as anyone who receives the message knows, the e-mail came directly from you to that person and only that person. No one is the wiser.
This technique works in Hotmail and Juno, but it ought to work in others, too.
Copy this post and e-mail it to all your friends. It’s the right thing to do.
