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Cc'ing comes from letters. The usual approach is to send a copy of the letter to each recipient in the cc list


Yep. CC means “Carbon Copy”, as in I’m writing this letter once, and using carbon paper to make copies as I write it. So the main recipient would get the primary copy and the CC recipients would literally get a carbon copy.


This made laugh so hard. I love these kinds of discovery as people make that to some are so obvious.




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