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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thread</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="thrash.html" title="thrash"/><link rel="next" href="three-finger-salute.html" title="three-finger salute"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thread</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="thrash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="three-finger-salute.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thread"/><dt xmlns="" id="thread"><b>thread</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of <span class="firstterm">topic thread</span>, a more or less continuous chain
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of postings on a single topic. To <span class="firstterm">follow a
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thread</span> is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common
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subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The
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better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to
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be confused with the techspeak sense of ‘thread’, e.g. a
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lightweight process.</p><p>Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says:
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“<span class="quote">That which connects the successive points in anything, esp. a
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narrative, train of thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas
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continuing throughout the whole course of anything;</span>” Citations are
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