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by Anonymous User on Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 11:09:03 AM PDT

Ed, I don't see this ever really happening. If someone sends you an email with the intent of not letting you print it, for example, how difficult would it be to use a screen grabbing program to make a picture of it (or a digital camera). While it might slow down rapid forwarding of messages, I don't think that it could stop them entirely. How would people react if they saw a screen print or picture that showed an email message. Would they treat it as less "real" or would they want to accept it as something that they wanted to see but weren't allowed to. Unless there were laws associated with criminalizing the distribution of "protected" email, I don't see how it could be enforced.


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