2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of topic thread , a more
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or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic. To follow a thread
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is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more
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correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The better newsreaders
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can present news in thread order automatically. Not to be confused with the
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techspeak sense of thread , e.g. a lightweight process. Interestingly, this
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is far from a neologism. The OED says: That which connects the successive
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points in anything, esp.
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