{"id":169274,"date":"2025-06-16T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/glossary\/carbon-copy-cc"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:44:26","slug":"carbon-copy-cc","status":"publish","type":"concepts","link":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/glossary\/carbon-copy-cc","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Copy (CC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In email terms, &#8220;CC&#8221; stands for Carbon Copy. It&#8217;s a nod to the old days of physical correspondence, when letters were duplicated using carbon paper. Today, CC lets you send a copy of your email to someone without making them the primary recipient. They can read what you&#8217;ve sent, but they&#8217;re not necessarily expected to reply or take action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a cousin of CC: BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy. You won&#8217;t always see it used, but it allows you to send a copy of the message invisibly. People in the &#8220;To&#8221; or &#8220;CC&#8221; fields won&#8217;t know someone was blind-copied. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ablebits.com\/office-addins-blog\/add-bcc-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That has different implications<\/a>, usually related to privacy or discretion and is common in email communications, where you don&#8217;t want to expose everyone&#8217;s email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carbon copy (or: CC) lets you send a copy of your email to someone without making them the primary recipient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cat_topic":[],"cat_glossary":[],"class_list":["post-169274","concepts","type-concepts","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/concepts"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169278,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169274\/revisions\/169278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_topic?post=169274"},{"taxonomy":"cat_glossary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_glossary?post=169274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}