Re: [Lurker-users] How are the filenames created for displayed messages ?

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:01 PM, mark david mcCreary <md...@in...
> wrote:

> /var/www/cns-listserv/cns-listserv/message/20121217.183341.1bbc9bfe.en.html
>
> 20121217 should be the date, and 183341 is probably the timestamp.  But
> what about 1bbc9bfe ?
> It looks like a CRC32 checksum, but I can not reproduce it from the
> message.
>

It's a compressed MD5 of the message-id if available, otherwise the author
address, otherwise random.

See:
http://lurker.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lurker/trunk/lurker/index/Index.cpp?revision=1649&view=markup
... functions Index::index_id and build_message_hash