Sue
Thanks for your response. I will verify the Activities info. How can I
prevent the birthday info from being sent

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Read my message again, especially the second and third paragraphs. A vCard contains no such activity data. What users were seeing was ****THEIR OWN DATA***** related to you, e.g. email messages exchanged with you.

Outlook has a built-in feature to add birthdays of contacts to the Calendar folder.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"jsrygley" wrote in message ...
Sue

Thanks for your response. In fact, I sent a v-card to myself and undert he
Actvities tab is a list of hundreds of my activities. Unfortunately I
distributed this to many of my clients. Doubtless noone would have noticed,
but the vcard also somehow added my birthday to everyone's calendar at my
client's office and they were all wondering how that happened. One of them
started going through the tabs and they realized they had my activities as
well. this is not paranoia, this happened, and I would like to know how to
turn it off. Thanks John

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

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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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"jsrygley" wrote in message news How can I prevent ACTIVITIES from being sent with v-cards in Outlook 2003?