R starts a reply, F forwards, and N opens the next message: Elm (from electronic mail) was one of the first popular email programs in the 1980s that came with their own interface and keyboard commands.
Today, we move mouses and tap screens, of course, but keyboard shortcuts are still wildly productive. In Windows Live Hotmail, you can have R, F and N command what they did in Elm by choosing Gmail shortcuts, for example, or have it behave more like Yahoo! Mail:
›› Love to operate Windows Live Hotmail using swift keyboard shortcuts but wish they'd not rely so much on key combinations dear to Windows users but foreign to you? Here's how to enable some Yahoo! Mail or Gmail shortcuts for Windows Live Hotmail.

Hotmail is a problem for me as I can’t forward anything because it has garbage all over the page.