BCC Etiquette for Email Intros, A Gmail Labs Feature Request

Iqram introduced me to the brilliance of the BCC a few months ago, and I now have a pretty standard workflow for replying to an email introduction I receive.

1. Click Reply to all
2. Click Add Bcc
3. Click the To field
4. Select the sender’s email address and cut it
5. Click the Bcc field
6. Paste
7. Click the Cc field
8. Select the email address of the person to whom I was intro-ed and cut it
9. Click the To field
10. Paste

In the body, I then write something like:

Joe, thanks for the intro. I’m moving you to Bcc to free you from my coordination correspondence with Dave.

Dave, nice to meet you…

This gets pretty tedious, but keeps Joe’s email inbox free from the rest of the thread, which is usually not relevant to him. Gmail, can someone in the labs team make a “Reply Moving Sender to BCC” button that automates this workflow? Like this:

I have been doing way to much email of late…

Some more correspondence tips I have recently enjoyed:

The Double Opt-In Introduction – Fred Wilson
How to set up an appointment – Eric Friedman
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule – Paul Graham

Anyone else got related links to add?

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