What's the point of CC now?

I remember when I first started using e-mail, you could only put one e-mail
address in the To: field. Now you are able to put as many e-mail addresses as
you want in the To: field. So what is the point of "CC:", isn't this function
kind of redundant? Or am I missing something?

Roady
Sun May 11 01:32:23 PDT 2008

No, as you can direct an email to a person and send it to another person for
informational purposes. The second one should be on the CC line.

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"Samedy" <Samedy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D67BC73-E059-47AB-A52F-728C74F24B86@microsoft.com...
> I remember when I first started using e-mail, you could only put one
> e-mail
> address in the To: field. Now you are able to put as many e-mail addresses
> as
> you want in the To: field. So what is the point of "CC:", isn't this
> function
> kind of redundant? Or am I missing something?

VanguardLH
Sun May 11 07:05:02 PDT 2008

"Samedy" wrote in
<news:0D67BC73-E059-47AB-A52F-728C74F24B86@microsoft.com>:

> I remember when I first started using e-mail, you could only put one e-mail
> address in the To: field. Now you are able to put as many e-mail addresses as
> you want in the To: field. So what is the point of "CC:", isn't this function
> kind of redundant? Or am I missing something?

You were using e-mail over 30 years ago before when RFC-724 (obsoleted
by RFC-822) was ratified to provide Internet messaging standards and
where multiple addressees were permitted in the To header?