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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. Enough April Fool's Already. by GrifterCC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do you seriously mean to tell me that there are no important tech stories taking place today? Most of these articles are barely even chuckle-worthy.

    1. 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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  2. Re:This would actually be useful. by rar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have actually wanted this feature at times and wondered why there was no way in the MUA UI to do it. Not for keeping people out of the loop, but for resending emails that get bounced (say, misspelled email or delivery failure) or to recipients I forgot the first time.

    Lets say that you are sending out a move invite to a number of friends. Just after you send it you notice that you forgot Alice. Now you need to send the invite just to her, but you prefer the email to look as the original so that she can see who else is invited. This is a common occurrence! And it would be very convenient if you could just bring up the email again, move everyone from To/Cc into Ccc, and then put her as the only CC.

    Please explain to me again why this is presented as an Aprils fool, rather than a genuine feature?

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  3. not the real April Fool's RFC by brunascle · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't the real April Fool's RFC. The real one is RFC 5841, TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood.