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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 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....
• 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....
• 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!...
• 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....
• 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}, {lurker}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• kiboze: [USENET] v. To {grep} the USENET news for a string, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up.
  This activity was popularised by Kibo (see {KIBO}, sense 2). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• include: vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.
  See the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacker Writing Style"....
• cross-post: [USENET] vi. To post a single article simultaneously to several newsgroups.
  Distinguished from posting the article repeatedly, once to each newsgroup, which causes people to see it multiple times (which is very bad form)....