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Subject: Re: [9fans] Forward option for Mail
From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:06:44 -0800
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>> subject line should say something like "by way of ...", where '...' is
>
> And these are more descriptive than Fwd; why?
>

So the reader knows who forwarded it, without having to sleuth it out
of the headers.

> Sounds like more NIH-syndrome.

In fact it is Not-Invented-Here. I've seen this way of forwarding in
Qualcomm's Eudora.