Decoy suggested it would be nice to have a way to send "blind carbon copy" messages.

To me, that could mean a command like:

   /bcc garance,scatter,decoy,coke: A message to four people

And people receiving the message would see:

 >> (20:25) Private message from System Manager, to you and three others:
 - A message to four people

If any discussions were included in the sendlist, then (IMO) they would be included in the header. I guess we should do similar reformatting for the header which shows up as a public message in a discussion.

The idea is to send one message to many people, without annoying people with a super-long header. Or load up the server with 50 sends (one to each person) instead of a single send to everyone. This might be useful for bots, among other things.

This wouldn't be hard to do for plain-text clients, but we'd have to think some more about the right way to do this for SLCP clients. Maybe a client should register that it will support BCC events, and if it does not then that user sees a standard /send.

Strider notes that it might be important to give a receiving user some way to find out the actual names of everyone in the bcc list.

I'm not sure how much I like the idea, but it seemed interesting enough to write it up.

-- GaranceDrosehn - 04 Nov 2004
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