forrard

adv : at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step

forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as

frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and

`forrard' are dialectal variations) [syn: {forward}, {forwards},

{frontward}, {frontwards}, {forrad}] [ant: {back}]

forward

(verb) To send (a copy of) an {electronic mail}

message that you have recieved on to one or more other

{addressees}. Most e-mail systems can be configured to do

this automatically to all or certain messages, e.g. {Unix}

{sendmail} looks for a ".forward" file in the recipient's

{home directory}.

A {mailing list} server (or "{mail exploder}") is designed to

forward messages automatically to lists of people.

{Unix manual page}: aliases(5).

(2000-03-22)