Does anyone know what the earliest established tradition for a forwarded
message subject-line was? Re: %s seems to be standard for replies, but
what about forwards?
Fw: %s
[Fwd: %s]
FWD: %s
something else?
A link to a website with some history would be interesting - it's not
easy to choose a good Google query...
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Tweedale wrote:
> Does anyone know what the earliest established tradition for a forwarded
> message subject-line was? Re: %s seems to be standard for replies, but
> what about forwards?
I always thought:
Fwd: %s
was the earliest one.
I don't like Fw: or FWD:, nor the square-bracket version.
Regards,
David.
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, David F. Skoll wrote:
> I always thought:
> Fwd: %s
> was the earliest one.
> I don't like Fw: or FWD:, nor the square-bracket version.
A square-bracket version of the form
[%s: %s]
(where the first string is the From and the second is the Subject) was in
use in the late 1970s and 1980s.
I forget what was used before that. In any case, Fwd:, Fw:, FWD: are all
much later.
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