diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/newsbot/newsbot.pl b/mozilla/webtools/newsbot/newsbot.pl
index 694415bf250..da7b3277e47 100755
--- a/mozilla/webtools/newsbot/newsbot.pl
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/newsbot/newsbot.pl
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ for my $msg (sort { $a <=> $b } $folder->message_list) {
     my $from = $1;
     $news  =~ /^Subject: ([^\n]+)/m;
     my $subject = $1;
-    $subject =~ s/^Re://g;
+    $subject =~ s/^Re://ig;
+    $subject =~ s/^Fwd://ig;
     $subject =~ s/&/&amp;/g;
     $subject =~ s/</&lt;/g;
     $subject =~ s/>/&gt;/g;