According to Charles Cazabon on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:35:44AM -0600: > Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:39:14PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > > > Occasionally, I Cc an email and the recipient of the Cc assumes > > > that the email is directed to them (and not just copied to them). > > > Is it possible to add an attribution-like line similar to: > > > > > > This is a copy of an email sent to <main_recipient> > > > > > > Would be nice to have this for Bcc (and bounce) as well. > > > > It seems to me that a much better long-term solution would be to > > politely explain to these recipients when they make this error, the > > meaning of the To and Cc fields. This would also save them from making > > the same mistake with mail from others besides yourself. > It dont seem that way to me. Email is a commercial tool, not just a techie medium. People do not (want to) squint at headers, even things obvious to you and I, like To: or Cc: If a bit of programming can make things _more_ obvious, the my view is that it is a good thing.
> It's also impossible to do what the original poster wants; as soon as the > message differs between recipients, it's no longer a cc/bcc; it's a different > message, and has to be injected separately. So "inject" it a second time - why all this ideology? Sendmail is light enough to be run a few times if needs be. -- Eric Smith
