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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
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Subject: Re: "Forward to " in .forward mishandled.
Keywords: forward
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Date: 9 May 91 10:41:49 GMT
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In article <22524@shlump.lkg.dec.com> jc@sppip7.lkg.dec.com writes:
> time-honored ways of doing this is via the $HOME/.forward file, so he
> created such a file for nm:
> 	echo Forward to u1.m1.lkg.dec.com, u2.m2.nac.dec.com >.forward

I have never heard of anyone doing this before.  There is the ``Forward
to'' convention used in /usr/mail for System 5 machines, but .forward
files have always contained addresses alone.

ian