Bill Curran wrote:

We just noticed today that with Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003, any
e-mails that are received in RTF format can be modified and saved by
the receiver. Plain text and HTML emails cannot be modified.

Yes they can. CLick EditEdit Message and you can change any type of
message.

I googled and searched and found noone else alarmed by this,

Why should they? Once the bits reach my computer, they're my bits. I can
do what I wish with them.

and it
really scares me that people who have been scared away from HTML
emails because they are blocked/trapped/filtered everywhere have all
switched to RTF (because they gotta have pretty email) and they don't
know that without IRM (Information Rights Management) , these emails
can be freely modified by the recipients and its very difficult to
tell that an email has been modified.

No where has it ever been claimed that email was secure or that tracability
was guaranteed. In fact, all claims have been to the contrary. Digital
signatures, at least, guarantee the sender is who he claims to be.
--
Brian Tillman