2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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followup
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. [common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting
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(as opposed to a reply , which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
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Followups include the ID of the parent message in their headers; smart
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news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in conversation
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sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See thread.
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