Posts Tagged ‘conventions’

Is the CC field dead?

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Every mail client I use allows multiple entries in the TO field. Is the CC field merely a social convention now, telling someone “just FYI”, or is there a valid reason to keep using it? BCC certainly has its uses, but I can’t think of a valid reason to CC someone versus just using TO.

UPDATE – a quick search show some programmatic uses for CC, parsing names and doing something different with them. But beyond that, why use it?