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topic thread - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.