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[Bob Leigh]

Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com> wrote:
> A recent header of mine, for example, was
> 
>     Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0310012243550.28473 at devers.homeip.net>
> 
> In my case, that indicated my mail client (Pine), operating system
> (MacOSX), mail client version (4.58), and ...I'm not sure what the other
> data is, it's semi-random after that (I think the last digits could be a
> process ID, but the 03100... number is a mystery to me).

As generated by Pine, the part after the 4.58 is usually a timestamp:
year 03, month 10, day 01, 22:43:55.0 or some such thing.


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