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• parent message: n. What a {followup} follows up. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• eply n. See followup.
• 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...
• followup: 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 heade...
• This marks Logical End-Of-Message. Physical EOM follows.
• Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
• What follows two days of rain? MONDAY!
• Sanity, n. A state of mind which immediately precedes and follows murder.
• I'm not illiterate. I know what my parent's names are!