Topic thread




[Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] 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. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically.





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