I believe that BCC can actually act as an active suppressor of reply-all storms even after they've started. i.e., reply-all to the storm in progress, but BCC the big list.
Each person who would send a reply-all does it in response to SOME message. If it happens to be your BCC, their message doesn't perpetuate the storm.
The BCCs would act as a kind of neutron absorber to dampen runaway reactions. Or like a trap-neuter-release program for cats.
Could be fixed by a good product manager or UX designer in Outlook team: instead of leaving CC field available for editing and BCC hidden, always ask about the intention and then show either of them.
BCC is broken in gmail. It lists the bcc’ed recipients for all to see. All other email systems I’ve used understand the “B” stands for “blind” and don’t let other recipients see the BCC list.
No it doesn't. I and others have used it many times, and it does not actually do that.
When you receive mail that you've been BCC'd on, it does attempt to figure out what address was used to get it to you, and displays that as a BCC (useful if it came to you via a mailing list that was BCC'd), so perhaps you're confusing that for showing the addresses of everyone to everyone, which isn't the case.
