Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is using CC and BCC.

Chang Ting writes in.

When emailing others, I use CC whenever I want someone to know how one thing is going on and

those people I CC aren't directly involved.

My supervisor seems annoyed by my frequent CC emails. How do I know when to use CC and when not?

CC and BCC are great tools to work less and do more. They save typing and you think they

keep everyone informed. But they don't.

They make everyone work harder to figure out why the heck you CC'd them

and what in the world you expect them to do in response.

CC stands for carbon copy.

Long ago.

Telephones had real dials and were wired to the wall.

I know who can believe it.

Calenders were printed on paper, and you had to wind up your car.

Your boss, Mike, would ask you to send him a copy of your report.

You called to your secretary.

Sally, honey, could you make sure to send Mike a copy?

Sally sat down at her Hermes manual typewriter

and grabbed some carbon paper. She put it between two sheets of regular paper. As she typed,

the typewriter letters would make a fuzzy copy on the sheet behind the carbon paper. If you

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