topic thread
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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