Of course you may.

And that's a good thing to remind people about.

Just make sure, everyone, that your recipients (even bcced people) are happy to be receiving correspondence from you!

awelldressedbullet wrote:

If I may?

It is really easy to email all your friends and protect their privacy, by using the "bcc" line of your email.

That stands for blind cc (in other words, you as the author will see all the emails addresses, but the recipients will only see theirs)

All emails programs should have it somewhere.

To:
CC:
BCC:

Thank you and kudo's to Pretty Bullet!  This is an excellent and safe practice to follow!  Whether on Squidoo or a private email, I was taught early on to BCC everyone and never divulge an em address for spammers to harvest!  You can actually send an email with all the addresses in BCC and nothing in the To: field (try it!)  I will send private ems to my family and CC the others just to let them know who got the private em, but never to someone who I do not know or have confidence in that they will exercise common courtesy!

I think I'm at least part-guilty of this occurrence today.

It started with my email to a select group of Squidoo friends asking for a critique of my new candy. One of the members used the reply-all button to warn as many folks as possible about this morning's spam filter bug. (She had good intentions but obviously used a questionable method.) From there it snowballed - other members chimed in, replying to all again...

I've used my personal Squidoo email list only about 3 or 4 times in the last year, and I felt uncomfortable about seeing it distributed this way. The "chain" stopped after a few rounds, so I let it be. After all, we're all friends and the obvious reason for the "high-jacking" of the email list was to warn other members before they would possibly encounter trouble with locked lenses.

However, I was ignorant of the BCC method. Thanks to Kathy, I'm now better educated.

I apologize to everyone who felt upset through the consequences of my ignorance. This shall not ever happen again.

I very much appreciate the personal contact with you, my Squidoo friends. I'll make sure that from now on your private email info shall be safe-guarded. 

(((((((((((Chef ))))))))))))))))

Chef, !!!! We absolutely love you. Your forgiven! 

Well, let's see....
I received about 11 of those emails about Chef's candy, and 2 from Poddy. Did you reply 2x poddy?
I didn't complain, but really wondered how I could stop the emails from coming every time someone commented and sent the email.
I was thinking I had to go to facebook to look at my settings, and I really didn't want to do that, as the last time I was there I was given a huge trojan that took me a couple of days to get rid of.

I also received 5 emails about the spam filter, funny, I replied to the original email, but didn't see my reply included with the 4 that followed, which were replies to the original. I didn't complain.

Gonna get a new service provider soon, and will lose my email addys for a new ones........I'll be very glad, as I receive around 700 emails a day thru 3 addys. I certainly will be implementing my SeoQuake addon with my new service while I'm online, and not allow anything to 'harvest' my email again, and give me little cookie presents.

Thank you PrettyBullet. I have a friend that uses BBc, and it always shows in the 'email to' list as 'undisclosed'. I wondered how she did that.

So its fixed now?  Thanks

I just just there was some way that Squidoo could have emailed us about it.  Preferrably with one of those "don't respond to this" emails.

My doubly baaaaaaaad too.  Huge mea culpa.  I was a bit panicked about my own lenses getting put UNDER REVIEW that I remembered getting Chef's mass e-mail and thought ooooooh what a quick way to get the message out because by the time you check the SquidU forum, you might be too late.  But anyhow, realize inappropriate even in times of panic and that the SquidU forum is exactly for that but will continue to correspond one on one with those people that have made a point of reaching out to me individually.  Someone did mention that Fluff's toolbar did have an alert feature that made them aware of the issue. 

Sorry, chef and for any lensmasters that were bombarded with the barrage of mass replies about the lens spam filter.  Decided to post here instead of sending out yet another mass apology e-mail......

Last edited by AdrienneJenkins (02/20/2009 4:25 am)

poddys wrote:

It never ceases to amaze me how many people have never heard about BCC and also how many don't understand the need to use it..

The BCC is the first rule we learn when we get our first computer!

It's so great to see all of us involved in this "boo-boo of passion" come forward to make this a community learning experience.

Our Ambassador to the Vatican, Father Squiderooni, stopped by and absolved us of our sins. We may put this whole thing to rest now.

Amen.

(If you don't forward this notice to your entire email list within the next 5 minutes - you might go to hell. Or something.) 

I wasn't upset about the e-mails, and appreciated a heads up about new candy (mmmmm) and the locked lens issue. All good intentions.

The cc and 'reply to all' issues became a problem for me when a high school friend did mass mailings in that fashion. Old boyfriends came out of the woodwork, and it became very awkward. Also, when I was on a home owners association board, the president accidentally broadcasted some unfavorable stuff about another board member via our 'private' e-mail list. Lawsuits were threatened, etc. I've never used 'reply to all' since.

Last edited by KimGiancaterino (02/20/2009 12:36 pm)

Ah - another person who remembers the old days of typewriters!

The golf ball was a great invention