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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson


I am, I’m not afraid to admit, quite a suspicious person. I also have the bad habit of reading meaning into things when there is no meaning to be read. If there is a right end and a wrong end to grasp, I will invariably grasp the wrong end. I have also developed quite a knack of brooding over things I have no right to brood over, and I have a great collection of conclusions I have come to that make no logical sense whatsoever.

So today’s question is – what does it mean, in a group mail, if your address is one in the ‘bcc’ section. As in, someone sends round a group mail – change of address, a collection of jokes, a link to a funny picture or website. That mail goes round to people, made up almost equally half and half of people you know and people you don’t. What does it mean if you can see everyone else’s address, but you can’t see your own? You’ve been bcc-ed. You’ve been blind carbon copied. You’ve been hidden from everyone else.

I’m only asking because it happened three times today, from two different people. The second time made me start to wonder. The third time made me want to email those two people back and ask them why the hell I’m being made unvisible.

Does it mean that they’re embarrassed to be mailing me? Does it mean they’re hiding my address from other people? Does it just mean they pressed the tab button once too often while composing the mail, and my address went from ‘cc’ to ‘bcc’ totally by accident? I have no idea, but I’d like to take an hour or two to be anxious about it.

And while you’re here –
Dear God, won’t somebody think of the children.

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