It's pretty obvious the name comes from the email cc: fieldNon-tech people who t...

giancarlostoro · 2026-09-23T01:34:44 1790127284

Thats still an awful name.

devindotcom · 2026-09-23T01:23:38 1790126618

non tech people will never hear about it haha, and if they did they'd be ten times as baffled as the others in this thread

shermozle · 2026-09-23T01:39:31 1790127571

Until someone at Google makes signups to this someone's KPI. Then you'll hear about it whenever you touch any Google product until it inevitably gets killed in 18 months. Meanwhile the PM hit their KPI and got promoted.

nightski · 2026-09-23T01:38:18 1790127498

It took me 10 minutes to figure that out, and I have been in tech for 30 years :) I'm probably just dense but it's not a good sign.

tehlike · 2026-09-23T01:20:26 1790126426

They can still find a different name. Cc is not the only possible name in the names universe.

Lammy · 2026-09-23T02:03:56 1790129036

How many of non-tech people have even encountered the term CC before? E-mail is a receive-only medium for most of them.

evolve2k · 2026-09-23T04:58:24 1790139504

Then keep the colon “cc:”