[plug] email with copyright protection? Maybe a bit [OT]?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:31:48 +0800, James Devenish
<devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> In message <41B058FC.9020209 at tigris.org>
> on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:15:56PM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> > rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> > >I sent this person a jpeg file. She claims she received it, can see a
> > >thumbnail view of it, but can't open it or save it. She says she gets
> > >warnings about copyright violation when she tries.
> > It could be the client doing it.
> 
> I can't imagine there's any RFC mail server that would manipulate JPEG
> attachments to cause this to occur (i.e. any such server would likely be
> a proprietary mail system like Exchange/Outlook, Notes, etc). I think it
> sounds like it *must* be the client that's doing it.
> 
> PS. There are several mail domains in which students might have a 'UWA
> student account', but the most common ones are 'tartarus' and 'cyllene'
> which use open-source SMTP, POP, IMAP and webmail.

I thought I remembered that when I was there they had virus scanning
on any attachments? I had a few blocked. But never with a copyright
warning. Do they use an os scanner? I guess this is drifting OT from
the OT.  :)

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Regards,
Russ