Posted on 01/31/2025 8:23:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Blind CC is the weapon of choice in many organizations.
God bless CC and its vanilla suburbs.
Phones don’t have “dials” anymore either.
The floppy disk icon for save is a similar thing from the past.
Wonder how many in Gen Z knows what the icon means.
We don’t need “cc” to evolve into the modern era. Leave it and bcc alone.
We could probably sit down and come up with many linguistic anachronisms in common use today.
As long as people know what they mean, what difference does it make? Language evolves out of language.
To me cc spells out for information only. If you’re cc’d you aren’t being asked to do anything, just be aware of the contents.
I’m so old, I actually used “carbon paper” to make paper copies! And I was using “cc” back then, too. Making “carbon copies” on a manual typewriter (which I learned on in high school) was tough because you had to strike the keys a bit harder than normal which slowed down your typing.
But my correspondence recipients were perplexed when they saw “bcc” at the bottom of my letters. “What’s this ‘bcc’?” they would ask.
Wire me when all y’all get it figured out...
Seems ‘CC’ has evolved from “carbon copy” to “courtesy copy” once emails became standard practice.
Everyone knows what it is so why change it?
We used carbon copies. A paper of carbon between two pieces of paper. We did that a lot in the 60’s and 70’s. It was dying out in the 80’s. But every office had a box of carbon paper in the early 80’s. I can’t remember when the typewriter was thrown out. I think it lasted in our office until 2000. It was good for tricky envelopes and forms.
Blind CC is valuable today, because you want to send out a newsletter or something. And you don’t want to publish everyones email address. U know blind cc can be used by sneaks. but those same sneaks can just send a second email as well. So you should always be aware of that.
i “bcc’ myself on important correspondence to have a copy to move to the Subject file, still with a copy under “Sent.’ works well.
It still being used in the 70's.
CC tells the other recipients that no action is required on their part, it’s just FYI...
Same reason the save button looks like a 3.5 floppy.
-PJ
I wonder how many folks here will get that one? I did
Did you number your card deck before you dropped the box?
Watfor?
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