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No... CC is a great way of separating the people who need to be involved in a conversation from those who may be interested in tracking its progress without needing to give input.
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Technically, BCC ("blind copies") specifies recipients that should be hidden from those named by the TO and CC fields, according to RFC 680, which I believe was the first RFC to introduce the BCC field as a standard header for Internet email.
In practice, implementations hide BCC addressees from one another as well, so it's often used to send a message to a large group of recipients who shouldn't see one another's addresses - which was the point of the original WTF.
Incidentally, there's a widespread belief that "CC" stands for "carbon copy" (and "BCC" for "blind carbon copy"), but in fact the "cc" abbreviation in business writing predates carbon paper and simply stands for "copies", following an old English (NB not Old English) convention of doubling a single-letter abbreviation to indicate a plural. I think Joanne Yates mentions this in her excellent study of business communication technology, Control Through Communication.
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Following the discussion on Hebrew grammar, I should point out that כבושים is a plural form and so cannot be used as an adjective in the (nonsensical) sentence - there's no plural noun which it could describe. Thus it can only mean 'pickles' (eg pickled cucumbers).
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Obscure reference to this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2895159/posts
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CC is useful for people who have an interest in being copied on an email but who are not meant to be the recipients.
This opens up all kinds of flexibility in client apps (for rules, etc -- "if the mail is TO me, move it to folder X else move it to folder Y". -- it also gives the people on the other end the ability to do a reply-all (for a group email) which would strip out BCC (as those clients never saw the BCC addresses, they would be lost at that point).
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While possible, it missed the point. כבושים means pickling by submerging in salt solution, while החמיץ, which is what your reference uses, means pickling in vinegar (yes, Hebrew has distinct words for the two, though few actually make that distinction today).
Shachar
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Meh... What are Con-SLUT-atants hired for?