UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

The blind carbon copy (BCC) field lets a sender include recipients whose addresses are not visible to those in the To or CC fields. This helps protect privacy and prevent unnecessary exposure of email addresses. It is commonly used when sending messages to large groups where recipients should not reply to all. Hence, the hiding feature described in the stem corresponds to BCC.

Option A:
Option A, carbon copy, or CC, makes all additional recipients visible to each other and therefore does not provide anonymity. It serves a different purpose of transparency in communication.

Option B:
Option B is correct because standard email clients label the hidden-recipient field as BCC, indicating blind carbon copy, which precisely matches the function of hiding identity described in the question.

Option C:
Option C, reply all, is an action that sends a response to all visible recipients and can increase exposure rather than hide it.

Option D:
Option D, forwarding, sends a received message to new recipients but does not by itself conceal addresses among people in the same message.

The Bcc, or blind carbon copy, field lets a sender include additional recipients without revealing their addresses to others listed in To or Cc. Messages are delivered to Bcc recipients, but their identities remain hidden in the header seen by other recipients. This supports privacy and discreet information sharing. Thus the field described is Bcc.

Option A:
Option A, the To field, lists primary recipients whose addresses are visible to everyone receiving the message. It does not provide any privacy protection among those addresses.

Option B:
Option B, Cc, or carbon copy, is used to send copies to secondary recipients, but their addresses are still visible to all others listed. It therefore does not meet the condition of hiding addresses.

Option C:
Option C is correct because Bcc explicitly suppresses the display of those recipient addresses in the message header. Email systems process Bcc entries in such a way that each Bcc recipient sees other visible recipients but not fellow Bcc addresses.

Option D:
Option D, Reply-To, indicates the address to which responses should be sent and is unrelated to adding hidden recipients. It controls reply routing, not confidentiality of the recipient list.