Followup

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followup
Usage: n.
Derivation: Common

See Also: thread


followup: n.

[common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the parent message in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See thread.

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Source: followup, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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