Re: Odd emails
You will often find that family and friends are computer illiterate and don't exercise much caution when using email and web browsing.
What such people tend to do is send out emails (often useless frivolous crap like say links to videos of cats and dogs and so on) and they just blanket email all their family and /or friends in one go.
Doing so they put ALL the email addresses in the "Send To" or "cc" part of the email which means everyone who receives the email can see the email addresses of everyone else the email was sent to.
That, imo, is very bad practice. Only takes one person on that list to get a virus on their PC through lack of caution and ability and that virus logs ALL the email addresses it can see in that persons email inbox. Hence it grabs YOUR email address along with everyone else's and then you become the target for future virus attacks.
What people should do is put all the email recipients addressed in the
BCC part of the email not the CC.
Then you don't get to see who else has been emailed, you just get the email yourself. This keeps everyone safer.
I've previously had to write some very stern emails to a couple of aunts who repeated didn't take this seriously and ended up causing lots of grief to the rest of the family who were receiving all sorts of spam and phishing emails. All because they wouldn't exercise a little discipline to use the BCC box in emails.