Re: thread id specification

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: thread id specification\r
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+Rama <rama@fastmail.com.au> writes:\r
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+> Can anyone in-the-know shed some light on how notmuch generates its\r
+> thread ids? Until recently, I'd only seen numeric thread ids 16\r
+> characters long, padded with zeroes. For example:\r
+>\r
+> thread:0000000000000001\r
+> thread:0000000000000002\r
+> thread:0000000000000005\r
+> etc etc\r
+>\r
+> Today, several new threads were created with non numeric ids:\r
+>\r
+> thread:000000000000000d\r
+> thread:000000000000000e\r
+> thread:000000000000000f\r
+>\r
+\r
+Those are numbers too, just hexadecimal.\r
+\r
+d\r