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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.