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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].