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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>followup</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fold-case.html" title="fold case"/><link rel="next" href="fontology.html" title="fontology"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">followup</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fold-case.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fontology.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="followup"/><dt xmlns="" id="followup"><b>followup</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] On Usenet, a <a href="../P/posting.html"><i class="glossterm">posting</i></a> generated in
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response to another posting (as opposed to a <a href="../R/reply.html"><i class="glossterm">reply</i></a>,
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which goes by email rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID
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of the <a href="../P/parent-message.html"><i class="glossterm">parent message</i></a> in their headers; smart
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news-readers can use this information to present Usenet news in
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‘conversation’ sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See
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