CC'ing yourself dates back to the days when email first became popular. Before that was the typewriter and you always kept a printed copy of the letters you sent. Then when emailing came into popular use, people still wanted a copy of that important communication so they started CC'ing themselves.
Nowadays, it's bad form to CC yourself. Why? Because it mimics a spammer tactic. It's possible to raise red flags with your email provider's spam filter by CC'ing yourself. The spam filter looks at the CC and tries to determine if the account has been taken over by a spammer.Some spam filters are smarter than others and some will put you on a permanent iggy if you CC yourself because it will see your emails as UCE (unsolicited commercial emails). Once you've been blacklisted, it takes work, time and sometimes money to get off.
CC stands for Courtesy Copy and the need to CC yourself has passed out of existence. Every time you send an email you have a copy in your sent mail folder. So if you CC yourself, you will have two copies of the email, thus increasing the size of your email box.
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