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• parent message n. What a followup follows up.
• 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...
• orphan: [UNIX] n. A process whose parent has died; one inherited by `init(1)'.
  Compare {zombie}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• farming: [Adelaide University, Australia] n. What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media.
  Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follow...
• upthread: adv. Earlier in the discussion (see {thread}), i.
  e., `above'. "As Joe pointed out upthread, ..." See also {followup}....
• etsplit: n. Syn. {netburp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• pain in the net: n. A {flamer}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• kulker: n. Syn. {prowler}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• include: vt. [USENET] 1. To duplicate a portion (or whole) of another's message (typically with attribution to the source) in a reply or followup, for clarifying the context of one's response.
  See the discussion of inclusion styles under "Hacker Writing Style"....