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Yes. OS X GUI allows / in file names, but OS X unix cleverly replaces / with : which is allowed in unix. There's a sort of understanding between the GUI and the gooey unixie goodness.

You will see the folder in the GUI with the slash in its name, but the CLI will see a colon.
Unfortunately, files cannot have a colon in their names in Windows.

Your move command didn't work because you attempted to move the folder to the exact same location without renaming it.
mv /pathtofolder/with\:colon /pathtofolder/without\ colon

would have worked. That renamed folder would then show up in the OS X GUI, CLI, and Windows. (unless some "hidden" attribute was in effect)
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NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

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