forwards

adv 1: 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}, {frontward},

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

2: in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead

slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the

forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: {ahead},

{onward}, {onwards}, {forward}, {forrader}]

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)