LEA Emails - everyone in the 'To' field

[dry]

Does your LEA/Council IT Team do the same as mine? They seem to include everyone's email address in the 'To' field for emails going to all techies in the area- and there are a lot of us!

 

I mean sometimes it's useful to have other techie's email addresses, but I'm sure not every techie wants everyone knowing their email address!

 

/rant

[Geoff]

Sane practice is to use a mailing list system (take your pick, there's plenty). Or put everyone in the BCC. Information leakage like this is considered a security issue in some industries.

[sonofsanta]

Even more fun when they're asking for a response and people start hitting Reply All

 

As far as I'm concerned, it's impolite to do this, and the courteous approach is to BCC.

[CAM]

They should use BCC as one day they will slip up and end up on the receiving end of the ICO's wrath. It has happened in the media a lot lately as sending visible addresses in CC and TO when others shouldn't see it is considered a leak of a customer database.

 

Plus, BCC stops said E-Mail reply storms.

[dry]

Sane practice is to use a mailing list system (take your pick, there's plenty). Or put everyone in the BCC. Information leakage like this is considered a security issue in some industries.

Indeed, this is the way I was taught and is the way I have done it in the past. Even when I have to send moany emails to several members of staff at a time I BCC them instead of stitching them up to their peers- it's just courtesy!