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How do I hide the email addresses that I’m sending to on a message?

Have you ever gotten a piece of email where you weren’t listed as a recipient? Your email address wasn’t present on either the To: line or the Cc: (carbon copy) line, but somehow you got it anyway. What you didn’t see was what’s called the blind carbon copy line, or Bcc: which allows the sender to specify a list of people to get the message without their names appearing on it.

Why “carbon” and what’s this about it being “blind”?