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  • well-behaved
    adj. 1. [primarily {{MS-DOS}}] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards. Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores suchVIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


    •  View Definition: followup 

    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 headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present USENET news in `conversation' sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See thread.