On 24 Nov 2008, at 12:11, BARRY HOLLAND wrote: > The biggest bug bear I have is if someone sends me a > 'funny' that I want to send on to someone else, unless I send the > *whole* thing with the history of everyone who has received it > before me, then any pictures involved will be reduced to an outline > with a small red cross in the top left-hand corner. > Being of a tidy mind & habits I like to delete these references but > the system won't let me. I've lost count of the number of so-called > experts who have stood behind me whilst I demonstrate the > shortcomings of the system to them. They then confidentally take > over the mouse & are shocked to find that this fault happens to > them--usually with a comment along the lines of ''Oh, that shouldn't > happen!'' It's quite likely to be a firewall or anti-virus program which is running a 'mail safe' program set to prevent downloading attachments which *might possibly* contain a virus.
There is a setting in Internet Explorer's 'Tools' / 'Internet Options' which does exactly the same thing. Certainly *something* an IT expert should know all about :-( Trevor
