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Also known as: FP, frist post
A reply whose entire content is a claim to have posted first in a thread or to a new group, contributing nothing else. Treated as noise on Usenet and a standard killfile target, the habit migrated to web comment sections and news aggregators where visible ordering made it more conspicuous. Propagation delays meant nobody on Usenet could actually establish who arrived first.
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