Missing Bcc: functionality in Tiger Mail--and worse: no Bcc: button!

MISSING IN ACTION!
Pre-Tiger, if you wanted to include a bunch of Bcc: addresses from your Address Book within Mail you could double-click each one from the mini Address Book window IF YOU HAVE THE CURSOR in the Bcc: field.
Even worse is that since Mail's inception in 10.0x, only To: and Cc: appeared as buttons! Conspicuously absent: a Bcc: button!
With ever-increasing spam, and privacy needs, anyone who sends to groups of people who may not know each other in the To: field is committing a terrible breach of privacy (exception: friends & family, etc.). Hopefully, one or more of those recipients would have have taught the "offender" how to use Bcc:.
Anyway, I was on the phone with Tech Support from Apple and they are finally "on the case." Level II and III techs actually had to fiddle with Jaguar and Tiger Mail to reproduce my problems, which is amazing that nobody [here] has escalated the issue very far. Their database was devoid of these problems!
Let's hope a Mail update is on the way shortly! We shouldn't have to wait for 10.4.5 for such an easy fix (the Bbcc: button at least).

If you have a problem, think about it. There is a wonderful little menu item on almost all applications called "Help". I have found it gives me the answer to about 99% of my problems. Mail "Help" provides the answer to your problem:
"To send email to more than one recipient, type the addresses, separated by commas, in the To or Cc (carbon copy) fields.
To send someone a copy without other recipients knowing, type the person's address in the Bcc (blind carbon copy) field. (If the Bcc header is not showing in your email message, choose View > Bcc Address Field.)
To have the Bcc or Cc header appear in all emails you send, open a new message window, choose Customize from the Action pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the address area. Select the checkbox next to the items you want to appear in your new message headers.
To send to a group of people, create a group address in Address Book, then use the group address in your email instead of the individual addresses. See Address Book Help for more information on creating a group.
If you want your recipients to reply to a different address from the one you are using to send the email, choose View > Reply-To Address Field, then add the address."
I trust this has been helpful.

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