Bcc reply goes to all recipients

Hi Karl,

Thanks for your response and explanation. May I be so bold as to say, I think this way to handle BCC is just plain wrong. If my intent in using BCC in the first place is to hide the BCC list from the TO and CC list, why would a simple response, EITHER Reply or Reply All, reveal the BCC list to some or all of the other recipients, and the TO and CC lists to the BCC recipients? Not clear thinking by the design team. Perhaps they should be introduced to the concepts of "privacy" and "the need to know". As it stands, BCC is useless and deceptively misrepresented.

As the sender, I don't have the option to disallow responses from BCC recipients, so you're telling me the only option to keep them separate is to send the message to each recipient individually? How efficient is that?

TL;DR? This stinks.

Something I forgot to include my previous response

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Am not entirely clear at what exactly you are asking. Your original post stated

"The CC list in the reply includes all of the To recipients in the original email."

Yet your last response refers to "............reveal the BCC list". Those are two entirely different things. Any BCC recipient has no idea who any other BCC recipients were nor would those get exposed. Perhaps you can clarify what exactly it is that you are referring to.

While I appreciate you marking my original reply as not resolving your question, can only provide an answer for the question posed. Can't suddenly change the rules under which the entire eco-system functions so not at all sure what answer you would find acceptable. Email standards are "industry standards" and not created by Microsoft

Hello IImaginethat

Hi, I'm Karl and will be happy to help you today.

The purpose of BCC is that no one in the TO or CC recipient lists see any recipient in the BCC list. It has no bearing on if a BCC recipient replies to a message they recieve.

However, if a BCC recipient replies (or reply all) to a message on which they have been BCC'd, it doesn't hide the recipients in the original message depending on which option was used to reply to the message (i.e. Reply = includes all original TO recipients or Reply All = all original message recipients.