Sending mail.
To protect your friends email addresses use the Blind Carbon Copy field. This works just like the Carbon Copy (Cc:) field, except that the email addresses are not forwarded to each recipient. Put one email address (perhaps your own) in the "To:" field, and the rest in the "Bcc:" field. When your recipients receive the email, they will see your email address and their own. The identity of your other recipients is hidden and they are protected from spammers. Click on Comments (just below and tiny!) to read more, Bcc and forwarding, about this topic.
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No Blind Carbon Copy on your mailer? Here's how to set it up. In Outlook 2000, select "Bcc Field" from the "View" menu and "Bcc:" field will be displayed from this moment on.
To use Blind Carbon Copy in Outlook Express, choose "All headers" from the "View" menu. This will cause the "Bcc:" field to be displayed from this moment on.
Thunderbird has a tiny down arrow in the To panel. Click it to select which field you want to use. Now simply list your recipient addresses in the Bcc: field instead of the Cc: field.
If you suspect your address is being distributed to all and sundry double click (or possibly Right click) on sender's email in the list panel to see all the addresses to which it has been sent.
Forwarding
Whilst on about e-mails, it is worth quoting a bit from a Clif Notes Newsletter (I know there's repetition but it's necessary!).
'If you get an email joke, funny story or a thought provoking tale that you just have to pass on to all your friends, do not forward it. I repeat, don't do it. Just copy the story and paste it into a brand new email and use the Bcc: address line to send it out to your many friends. Bcc: will make sure you aren't giving their email addresses out to all the big spammers out there. The new email will be easier to read and it won't contain all the email addresses that were in it when the previous recipient sent it to you. One more thing, the next time you want to forward an email that says Bill Gates is giving money away to you for forwarding it, think again, or check to see if the story is true at http://snopes.com or http://vmyths.com/ or http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm before you send it.'
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