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To: gouldian who wrote (45862)	4/3/2005 1:57:13 PM
From: Larry S.	Respond to of 110655

yeah: 1. ask them not to 2. forward their forwards back to them 3. put them on ban list. eom

To: gouldian who wrote (45862)	4/3/2005 3:30:08 PM
From: B.K.Myers	Respond to of 110655

Gouldian, Microsoft Office 2003 introduced Information Rights Management (IRM) that provides a way to help restrict recipients from copying, printing, or forwarding e-mail messages. office.microsoft.com Hope this helps. B.K.

To: gouldian who wrote (45862)	4/3/2005 7:01:42 PM
From: RMP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

Check out readnotify.com You can give it a free trial run. Basic plan is $24/yr and the premiun plan is $36/yr. You can send the following type of emails: Certified email Ensured-Receipts and retractable emails Invisible tracking Self-Destructing emails Block printing Block forwarding Secure Encypted emails Track MS Word or Excel documents Tracking report lets you know the following: Date and time opened Location Map Recipients IP address Recipients email address Referrer Track URL's Track how long an email is opened for Track how many times an email has been opened Track forwards

To: gouldian who wrote (45862)	4/4/2005 6:46:41 AM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110655

If I read your message right, the emails you send are getting forwarded and this puts your email address on spam lists. If this is happening you can set up a yahoo or hotmail account for free and use it for sending that kind of stuff. You don't even need to bother with reading all the return spam. Check all and delete. Only use you're "real" email for non-junk messages.

To: gouldian who wrote (45862)	4/4/2005 2:01:47 PM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110655

Fred Langa's current newsletter mentions the problem... Preventing Email Forwarding Fred: The situation is this: Frequently I need to send an e-mail that must not be forwarded to anyone, that is, the label Forward must be useless. The main reason is that the information contained in the e-mail must be considered personal, and although I know that it's easy to copy/paste the information, my boss wants that the destination user can't forward the e-mail by a simple click on the Forward label. In the site of Microsoft there's an article about this matter, but it seems the first part of something more and it doesn't explain how it works with detail. The link is office.microsoft.com Thanks for your help. Regards, Valdes Mata Francisco Javier The Microsoft article is about encryption; you can send someone an encrypted message, but there's still nothing that would prevent them from forwarding a copy of the unencrypted text, or from sharing the password, so I don't think that will really help you. The only systems I've seen that even marginally work to impede simple email forwarding involve posting the actual message on a private, secure web site, and sending the recipient a private URL to that one page. They then log in and can read and reply to the message via a form on the website (and not through actual email); the message never physically resides on the recipient's PC, and nothing except the private URL travels as email. With some suitable coding of the private web page (eg "right click disable" and HTML obfuscation) you can make it a little harder for the recipient to manipulate a message. But it's not much of an impediment: All the recipient has to do is take a screen capture, or even copy the text longhand or with a digital camera, and then they can do whatever they want with the copy of the supposedly private message. This is a case where technology probably isn't the answer. Rather, some kind of private agreement, or even a legally-binding nondisclosure agreement drawn up by a lawyer, might be better to protect your interests. I noticed that B.K.Myers has already posted the Microsoft URL.