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IETF Drops RFC For Cosmetic Carbon Copy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-never-happened dept.

paulproteus writes "Say you have an email where you want to send an extra copy to someone without telling everyone. There's always been a field for that: BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy. But how often have you wanted to do the opposite: make everyone else think you sent a copy to somebody without actually having done so? Enter the new IETF-NG RFC: Cosmetic Carbon Copy, or CCC. Now you can conveniently email all of your friends (with a convenient exception or two...) with ease!"

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  1. Re:This would actually be useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since when does a boss read e-mails anyway? In this case, CC and CCC would function the same.

  2. Re:Enough April Fool's Already. by BitZtream · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just wait ...

    You're going to see a post from an unexpected new slashdot mod ... his/her post will be something like:

    I couldn't take it anymore. I've killed them all. Slashdot will now be closed because I had to save the world from them. I'm going to turn myself in now, you're all welcome.

    To which I suggest we all respond with donations to their legal fund.

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  3. Re:This would actually be useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A friend and I made a CCC. We did a fake reply-all. It was really just a reply to one person. Then he included something personally embarrassing, so the recipient would think it was accidentally sent out to every one on the list.

  4. Actually, it's the "CC" field. by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

    IETF Bows To Environmentalists, Drops Email Carbon Copy

    In a measure that will help reduce both SPAM and glbal worming, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) today announced that they will be dropping the "Carbon Copy (CC) field from the email standard.

    Spammers will no longer be able to CC: hundreds of people at once, thus shifting more of the load from mail servers to individual zombie computers. This will allow for easier detection by anti-spam software runing on host systems, due to the several orders of magnitude increase in Internet traffic that will be required to send spam.

    In Soviet Russia, spam no longer CC's YOU!