forum
An online discussion group. Online services and bulletin board services (BBS’s) provide a variety of forums, in which participants with common interests can exchange open messages. Forums are sometimes called newsgroups (in the Internet world) or conferences.
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Forward is an option found in an e-mail client, which allows you to forward a received e-mail to another recipient. The e-mail will be sent with the body of the e-mail showing as “quoted text”. Recipients of a forwarded e-mail can usually tell the e-mail is a forward. Some clients will place the letters “FWD” […]
- forward slash
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