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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: add function to get time from message id's
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 21:33:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nu18qjnz6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smoaib9n.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl>

On 10 Aug 2003, cor@clsnet.nl wrote:
> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> 
>> > Wishlist: add a function to extract as much information as
>> > possible from gnus Message-ID's.
>> > 
>> > E.g. I am the FBI, I want to know when
>> > <87adalyvmw.fsf@jidanni.org> was created. I hear that 87adalyvmw
>> > contains time information.
>> 
>> < Messages already have a "Date" header.  How is this useful?
>> 
>> Here at FBI Labs, all we have is the suspect's Message-ID.
> 
> 
> hint,hint,nudge,nuge
> google ?
> It would safe the taxpayer some billions.....;-)

Google doesn't archive personal mail...  I thought of suggesting
Google or something like it but Dan really just needs to archive
messages of interest, not only the Message-IDs.  Using the Message-ID
for any parsing is unreliable at best.

Ted


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-10  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-09  7:50 Dan Jacobson
     [not found] ` <87smoaib9n.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl>
2003-08-10  1:33   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-08-10  2:38     ` Cor Gest
     [not found] <878yq5yvgj.fsf@jidanni.org>
2003-08-08 17:12 ` Ted Zlatanov

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