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 headers;
smart news-readers can use this information to present Usenet
news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See
thread.
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fontology n.
[XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing with the
construction and use of new fonts (e.g., for window systems and
typesetting software). It has been said that fontology
recapitulates file-ogeny.
[Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum
that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On
the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through
contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that
created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel
to `files' and `folders' --ESR]