History of putting square brackets around subject of forwarded email (fwd)

[Steven W. Orr]

In the early days of email, only the Emperors had the resources to 
be able to afford manual labor needed to remove the husks from rice to 
make it white, and to pay for the brackets for forwarded email. After some 
time, a process was developed to cheaply remove the husks from the rice 
and to add inexpensive brackets to forwarded messages. The irony is that 
the most nutrition was in the husk component of the rice, but the brackets 
used today are just as high in nutritional value as the old expensive 
brackets used by the Emperors of ancient times.

-- 
steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/
Do you have neighbors who are not frambors?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:03:43 -0500
From: Larry Cook <lcook at sybase.com>
To: GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Subject: History of putting square brackets around subject of forwarded email

I'm just curious, does anyone know why square brackets are put around the 
subject of forwarded email?  This is done by the Netscape/Mozilla based email 
clients.  Not sure if others do it also.

Thanks,
Larry
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