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Followup

/fä-lō-ˌəp/

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 headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present USENET news in 'conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival.

See thread.