History of putting square brackets around subject of forwarded email

Chip Marshall chip at 2bithacker.net
Fri Feb 2 14:24:06 EST 2007


On 2/2/07, Larry Cook <lcook at sybase.com> wrote:
> 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.

mutt does this by default as well, I believe, though it is configurable via the
forward_format configuration variable.

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Chip Marshall <chip at 2bithacker.net>


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