cc

what do you make out of this term?
Realised last night that I was supposed to take the meaning of "cc" (which stands for carbon copy) as being addressed to the cc list recipient ONLY.

a lil' backgrd of the story: I received a sms that sorta sounds like a genric message to send well wishes to someone, with 2 names being "cc"-ed below. Having use to the common understanding that "cc" in the email world means, "for your information only".. i didn't forward that message to all ~ cuz i served as a "birthday reminder"~ so I thought that the kind soul actually relief me of that task for that particular event. (did remember when i received smses regarding prac & etc from my choir ic, the cc list only listed the other ic's names, so i thought the same logic applies too..) Little do i realise that it meant that I was supposed to forward the message. until last night, when i talked to him.

Well, so did a search on google, and at least my assumption is not groundless or based on own personal preference.. according to "searchWinIT.com Definitions " (http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci211745,00.html) definition of cc is as followed..

"...In e-mail, a carbon copy (abbreviated "cc," and sometimes "fcc" for "first carbon copy") is a copy of a note sent to an addressee other than the main addressee. A blind carbon copy is a copy sent to an addressee that is not visible to the main and carbon copy addressees. For example, you may have a work colleague that acts as a back-up when you're on vacation or not at work. You don't necessarily want the people you correspond with to know that you have a back-up. So, to keep your back-up informed, you always send the back-up a blind carbon copy. The fact that a blind carbon copy was sent is not apparent to the main and carbon copy recipients.

The term is borrowed from the days of the mechanical and later the electronic typewriter (circa 1879-1979) when copies of typed sheets of paper were made by inserting a special sheet of inked paper called carbon paper into the typewriter. For two copies, you would insert carbon paper (sometimes just called a "carbon") between the original being typed and each of the two sheets that would become the carbon copies. Today, the term courtesy copy is sometimes used instead. "

well.. well.. lesson learnt.. don't assume.. what seemed to be good not necessarily good..