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vCard contains e-mails under activities tab.  How do you prevent

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JE Rice - 12 Apr 2006 18:56 GMT
I am attempting to forward vCards from Contacts in Outlook 2003.  When I
forward them e-mails in the other Outlook folders are included under the
activities tab of the vCard.  How can I prevent these e-mails from being
transmitted with the vCard?
Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 12 Apr 2006 19:34 GMT
Those items are only viewable on your machine. Once that vCard is on another
machine those things won't show up.

>I am attempting to forward vCards from Contacts in Outlook 2003.  When I
> forward them e-mails in the other Outlook folders are included under the
> activities tab of the vCard.  How can I prevent these e-mails from being
> transmitted with the vCard?
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 13 Apr 2006 19:29 GMT
You can stop being paranoid about this. No one is monitoring the activities in your Outlook folders. A vCard is a text file that contains information about a contact. You can see this for yourself by opening it in Notepad. It contains no information about activities. REPEATING: It contains no information about activities.

The Activities page builds a list *on the fly* of items related to the current contact. It builds that list from the *current user's* Outlook folders. If someone has activities related to you, they'll see them when they open the vCard you sent, because Outlook creates one of its own contacts from the vCard. If you open that vCard yourself, Outlook creates a contact with your information on it, and that contact's Activities page will show all the activities in your folders involving you.

If you still don't believe me, save the vCard to your hard drive and open it in Notepad.
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>I am attempting to forward vCards from Contacts in Outlook 2003.  When I
> forward them e-mails in the other Outlook folders are included under the
> activities tab of the vCard.  How can I prevent these e-mails from being
> transmitted with the vCard?
 
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