Carbon Copies and Blind Carbon Copies
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What is CC: and BCC:

CC stands for Carbon Copy and BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. You can send a courtesy copy which is the same thing by entering the email address of the person who you want the copy sent to in the CC field.

When you enter an address in the TO field or CC field all recipients can see who received the e-mail. Any addresses entered in the BCC field will not be visable.

If you are going to send out emails to a mailing list or even just a few people, you should take great pains to hide the email addresses from everyone on the list.

Usually when someone sends an email to say, four people, they will just list them in the TO or CC field. The problem with this practice is simple: everyone who receives the email also receives all of the email addresses. This is wonderful for spammers, but most of us would rather our email addresses were at least somewhat protected.

You can protect email addresses by using the BCC field. This works just like the 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 in the TO field and their own in the BCC field. The identity of your other recipients is hidden and they are protected from spammers.