Suppose that I, the proud president of Universal Widgets, get an email from Al, one of our loyal clients. Al wants to know whether our widgets can work under water.<\/p>\n
I think so, but am not sure. So I send a reply, copying Betty who runs our R&D lab, suggesting that she follow up.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I also blind-copy Cecil, our patent lawyer. After all, if satisfying this customer will involve inventing some new capability, I want Cecil in the loop.<\/p>\n
What’s wrong with this picture? Well, for one thing, Betty doesn’t know that I copied Cecil. While I may not want the customer to know we’re copying our patent lawyer on this exchange, I probably do want our head of R&D to know.<\/p>\n
As far as I know, there isn’t any graceful way, with a single email, to do what I really want: Send a reply to Al, copy Betty on my reply, and copy Cecil in such a way that Betty (but not Al) sees that I have copied Cecil.<\/p>\n
Yes, I could one email to just Al and Betty, and then send another email to just Betty and Cecil. But that seems inefficient.<\/p>\n
Shouldn’t there be a way to do this in one step?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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