Cc, in e-mails.?

Question

What does it mean when someone puts you under Cc, in an e-mail? Does that mean they don't want you to see some information?

Because my friend sent an e-mail to me but put me in Cc, but then put someone else in the normal To: thing, so does that mean they don't want me to answer? Or don't need me to answer?

My friend is very punctual and grammatcially correct, so he wouldn't have put me in there if he didn't know what it meant. So I'm pretty sure that he meant to put me there. But some people are saying that it means that you don't have to answer the e-mail.. but I don't know if I should or not, usually when you put a person in Cc, what do you mean by it??

Answer 1

I think it is carbon copy and bcc is blind carbon copy

In cc they can see the information but if u bcc, they will not be able to see other information esp the e mails.

Answer 2

Usually a CC: is used to send a copy of an email to someone as a kind of FYI note. So if I sent a note to a co-worker but I want the boss to know that I sent the note, I'd CC the boss.

This is also helpful in letting the co-worker know that the BOSS is aware of the situation.

You didn't ask this part, but BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. This means that several people got the email but nobody knows who else got it.

Answer 3

CC mean "carbon copy" which in the "olden days" carbon paper was used to copy a document and signatures, and it was just used by the creators of email because most people knew what that meant. If you want someone to get a copy of your email but not let the recipient(s) know you are copying the email to someone else, you should use BCC which means Blind Carbon Copy, so the recipient will not see that person(s) name or the fact you copied them. One thing to warn when doing this, the BBC person(s) you send the email to need to know they should not reply to the group because then the original recipient will know you Blind Copied the others.

Answer 4

CC implies Carbon Copy, as opposed to sticking everyone in the TO option.

The idea is that the To is for immediate recipients whereas CC is for participants who don't need to know every details (i.e for your information)

you can stop people seeing who you send emails to by using BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) which answer the last part of your question. This is just a field like To and CC but hides recipient information.

Answer 5

The term Cc has found renewed use with the growth of the Internet. Its purpose is similar even though its implementation has changed.

In e-mail, the abbreviation Cc refers to the practice of sending a message as a "carbon copy" or "courtesy copy". That is, the receiver is not expected to reply (although they may, of course). Typically, supervisory personnel are notified with Cc.

Contrary to popular belief, Cc is not meant for sending multiple copies, at least, not particularly. It is a perfectly legitimate practice to populate the To: field with several addresses.

The Cc recipients are revealed to all recipients, and this may not be desirable, depending on the situation. An alternative field, Bcc or blind carbon copy is available for hidden notification. In common usage, To field recipients are the primary audience of the message, Cc field recipients are others whom the author wishes to publicly inform of the message, and Bcc field recipients are those surreptitiously being informed of the communication

Answer 6

CC means carbon copy. That just means that whoever sent the e-mail to you, sent the exact same thing to someone else (or maybe several other people). Sometimes people send an e-mail to themselves as well as the person they are writing to just to make sure everything got through alright. BCC means blind carbon copy. If someone sends something BCC, that means you can't see the other e-mail addresses that the message was sent to if it was sent to others, BCC is nice if you want to send something to several people who don't know each other and really have no business knowing each other's contact information.

Answer 7

CC just means that the address in that box recieves a Carbon
Copy of the email. If you want to send a copy of the email to someone but you don't want others to know that they got a copy use Bcc Blind carbon copy.

Answer 8

usually if you're a CC, then they wanted to just send it to you as well. it can insinuate that you don't need to reply, and it isn't directed at you, but the sender wanted you to see it. . If you're listed as a BCC, that is a blind carbon copy and the person/people it was sent to in the To section cannot see that you have gotten the email.

Answer 9

At my job sometimes my boss will tell me to send a mail to so and so to tell them this that and the other. So I address the mail to that person and cc the boss so he knows that it was sent. Also the mail recipient knows that the boss is aware of the mail.

Answer 10

i think it comes from back when typing, they made carbon copies and sent those to others along with the original addressee. With emails, CC means they sent the email to everyone on that list. Rambling, I know, hope it helped