Horror stories:
Associated Press has a story January 11th
2009 about an "Reply-all e-mail storm" at
the State Departement. An e-mail was sent out to hundreds
of people with all addresses in the To-field and the whole
e-mail system was nearly knocked out because of people
clicking Reply to All, to either ask to be removed from the
list or tell everyone else how stupid they were for using
Reply to all...
Read more: Reply-all e-mail storm hits State
Department
Daniel tells us: "A person sent a mail to
all his contacts when he quit his job, to tell everyone
where he was going etc. One of his recipements was a
hardware seller who instantly used all the addresses to
advertise their products. That wasn't popular at all."
Bad examples:
"Thank you for purchasing the Intimate device XXX, we also
have a new great device called..."
The customers definitely wouldn't want others to know that
they bought such devices and never agreed on having their
address sent out in this way.
"You are receiving this because you went on the 'Save your
marriage'-course, we now have a new course called...".
You might have people who know each other and really
doesn't want the other to know that they are having
problems.
"This is sent to everyone who still hasn't finished the
course 'Advanced databases', there will be a new exam..."
What if one of the people on the list is a colleague of
someone who doesn't want people to know that he failed the
course?
Also see the example on the How to Bcc page
If you want examples on the correct way of using Bcc,
look here.