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• followup: n. 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 heade...
• hread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
  To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....
• hread: n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
  To `follow a thread' is to read a series of USENET postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....
• ot13 /rot ther'teen/ n.,v. [Usenet: from `rotate alphabet 13 places'] The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabe
  o that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!...
• ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
  ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites....
• posting n. Noun corresp. to v. post (but note that post can be nouned).
  Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary email message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
• posting: n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that {post} can be nouned).
  Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
• ead-only user n. Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or email, rather than writing code or purveying useful information.
  See twink, terminal junkie, lurke...
• ot13: /rot ther'teen/ [USENET: from `rotate alphabet 13 places'] n.
  v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!...