Yet another reason to Hate AOL

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Edward Todd" wrote in message
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[...] Always use BCC. Spammers use
siffer software that can pull these addresses and hey pas through a
server. BCC really helps this.

Putting email addresses in the bcc field does nothing to hide the email
addresses, except to the final recipient. All of the email addresses are
easily visible to any of the servers between the sender and the final
recipient, including the final recipient's email server.

To make matters worse, as your advice pertains to this thread, putting email
addresses in the bcc field often sets off spam detection rules.

I do use bcc for large mailings, because it prevents obnoxious reply-alls
when you know a reply-all would never be appropriate. But no one should
believe that using bcc in any way serves to hide the email addresses from
spammers.

In fact, it does. The addresses in the BCC field (in fact, there's no
such thing, and it's only your mailing program like Outlook that knows
anything about this field; the addresses go to what's known as "the
envelope") are usually visible to 1) your provider's server and 2) your
addressees' providers' servers. Chances are really good that none of
these servers is involved in address fishing for spammers.

Anyway, back to AOL - Jay, the only meaningful way to deal with it is to
try to get AOL users on your list to call their customer support and
complain REALLY LOUD.

Pete

Dima