[MlMt] Feature Request: BCC warning/intro

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On 7 Sep 2016, at 10:45, Shoshanna Green wrote:

> On 7 Sep 2016, at 10:11, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>
>> On 7 Sep 2016, at 15:47, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 7 Sep 2016, at 9:54, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>>>
>>>> One thing that I think it was Eudora that introduced, was to add a 
>>>> "signature" at the beginning of the message body that read:
>>>>
>>>> "IMPORTANT! This message has been blind-carbon-copied to you. Do 
>>>> not reply-to-all or forward it without the author's permission."
>>>
>>> I guess that makes sense, but it's not so easily added to MailMate.
>
> Honestly, BCC is risky enough, even with a warning like that, that I 
> generally don't use it. If I want to secretly loop someone in on an 
> email I'm sending to someone else, I usualy send the message and then 
> forward my own copy of it to the person I might have BCCed. All the 
> benefits of secret backchannel communication, none of the risks of 
> getting outed by an accidental reply-all ;)
>
That's what I do, too, which suggests an even more stringent mechanism: 
put the original To/Cc lines into the body of the bcc copy.  Yes, it's 
an extra SMTP, but so is doing it manually.