Sending e-mail to entire address book?

Paul Förster <paul.foerster RemoveThis @gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Bubba,
>
> On 2008-03-28 00:42:45 +0100, Bubba <rhl RemoveThis @hal-pc.nospam.org> said:
> > Is there a simple way of addressing an e-mail (change of address) to my
> > entire address book?
>
> ... there is. Launch Mail. Hit option-command-a to open the address
> panel, or alternative select "Address Panel" from the "Window" menu.
> Then hit command-a to select all address book entries. After that,
> click on "To:". A new mail window will open with the "To" field filled
> with all your address book entries.
>
> Hope this helps.

By doing it that way, every single recipient in your address book
will be supplied with a list of the email addresses of every one of
the other recipients in your address book. Perhaps that is what you
want. On the other hand, it needs only one of these recipients to be
appropriately infected, and your entire address book finishes up in
spammers' lists.

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Alec McKenzie
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Hi Alec,

On 2008-03-28 15:48:00 +0100, Alec McKenzie <alecusenet.DeleteThis@my-surname.me.uk> said:
> By doing it that way, every single recipient in your address book
> will be supplied with a list of the email addresses of every one of
> the other recipients in your address book. Perhaps that is what you
> want. On the other hand, it needs only one of these recipients to be
> appropriately infected, and your entire address book finishes up in
> spammers' lists.

.... right. In this case, add the BCC: field and move all addresses in
the resulting mail window from the TO: field to the BCC: field and add
yourself to the TO: field...
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cul8er

Paul
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In article <654sa9F2efn5uU1.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>,
Paul Förster <paul.foerster.TakeThisOut@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Alec,
>
> On 2008-03-28 15:48:00 +0100, Alec McKenzie <alecusenet.TakeThisOut@my-surname.me.uk>
> said:
> > By doing it that way, every single recipient in your address book
> > will be supplied with a list of the email addresses of every one of
> > the other recipients in your address book. Perhaps that is what you
> > want. On the other hand, it needs only one of these recipients to be
> > appropriately infected, and your entire address book finishes up in
> > spammers' lists.
>
> ... right. In this case, add the BCC: field and move all addresses in
> the resulting mail window from the TO: field to the BCC: field and add
> yourself to the TO: field...

There's an added benefit from doing this. When the malware spammers use
breaks into a Windows computer, one of the most common things it does is
access the email on the computer. In short order, they have the email
address of every email recipient. If everyone used BCC for mass email
distribution, spammers wouldn't get as many addresses.

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