Patent ID: 8572192

Claim:
A method, comprising: A) receiving from a sender, by at least one server computer communicatively coupled to a network, a request to compose an electronic communication; B) generating, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a first email communication comprising a first recipient field, a second recipient field, and a first message field; C) receiving from said sender, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a first recipient electronic address in said first recipient field, a second recipient electronic address in said second recipient field, and a first message in said first message field; D) responsive to receiving said second recipient electronic address in said second recipient field, prompting, by one or more of said at least one server computer, said sender for a private message for transmission only to said second recipient electronic address; E) responsive to a negative response from said sender to said prompting step D), transmitting, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a completed version of said first email communication to said first recipient electronic address and said second recipient electronic address; F) responsive to a positive response from said sender to said prompting step D): i) generating, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a second email communication comprising said first recipient field, said second recipient field, said first message field, and a private message field that is in addition to said first message field; ii) receiving from said sender, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a private message in said private message field after said private message field has been generated; iii) transmitting, by one or more of said at least one server computer, said completed version of said first email communication to said first recipient electronic address; and iv) transmitting, by one or more of said at least one server computer, a completed version of said second email communication to said second recipient electronic address.