Email Groups

Email Groups

I love CC and BCC as much as the next guy; I think that its a useful tool for sending e-mails to various people, but as I mentioned before, it does have limits. For example, if you wanted to send off a message to seventy seven people, you'd have to write down seventy seven names in the CC section- this would take forever.

As they say, 'time is money'. I, like all male humans, LOVE money, so I like saving time. Wouldn't it be amazing if I could send of all those 77 mails in a single press of the button...

What was that? I can do that? Why didn't you say so?

Today we are covering Email Groups! Basically, all those bloody names placed in CC are recorded down and saved to a single 'group', so now you address the e-mail to the group, and voila! All seventy seven have mail! Following the initial inputting of names, this cans ave bags of time.

Now then, advantages. The obvious one is time and convenience; using a Group is a lot less stressful and time consuming than filling in the CC box a dozen times. Another advantage is that it helps you to organise your e-mail account, placing all of these addresses into a single group, so you have no need to look for each name individually if you forget their name.

Disadvantages! Initial time inputting names might be a pain. Next, using a Group will send a message to all those within said group, so Group can't be used privately like BCC can.

In summary, a brilliant tool for sending lots of e-mails to a hell of a lot of people in an extremely short amount of time and effort. For one or two people though, don't bother. It'd be simpler to use CC and BCC.