Protecting Your Contact List

I received an email today
with To: line
one hundred emails long.
I was ticked.

Why?

Because my email was sent to 99 strangers.
Because my connection to this person
was broadcast to 99 strangers.
Because I felt she disrespected our relationship.

She immediately got dropped from my contact list.
I will hesitate to do business with her again.

Contacts are fragile.
Protect them.

2 comments

  1. Have you considered educating her on this instead? Many people doesn’t know what the CC and BCC fields are good for..

  2. This is a pet peeve of mine. I have several times told a headhunter to use the bcc field after she broadcasted to everyone else on her potential candidate list that I was looking for employment. The other job-hunters were in the same field I am in… and while this could potentially have been good, it could have cost me my job.

    Please use the bcc fields.

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