Mersenne Mailing List -- Digest Number vs. Date Index The date range listed for a digest issue is that of the messages posted within that issue, and does not necessarily include the publication date in the issue's header.
There are anomalous dates in some message headers. Example: In digest Volume 1, Number 171, published on 1 June 1997, one of the posted messages is dated "Sat, 1 Mar 1997". Was that message actually posted three months after it was sent, or was it mis-dated by the sender's software for one reason or another? Rather than try to determine what happened, I simply index all message header dates as they appeared in the digests. On each line of this index, the message dates within each digest are listed in chronological order, but the messages were not necessarily posted in that order in the digest. Also, more than one message with a given date may have appeared in a digest issue, but this index lists each unique date only once for each digest issue. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Before first digest issue = 1996 April 21 through 1996 July 1 - - - Volume 1, Number 1 = 1996 July 7,8,9 2 = 9 3 = 9 4 = 9,10,11 5 = 11 6 = 11,12 7 = 12,13 8 = 14,15 9 = 16 10 = 18,20 11 = 22 12 = 25,26,27 13 = 1996 July 30,31, August 1 14 = August 2 15 = 4,5 16 (Number 16 contained only spam and responses to it.) 17 = 8,9,10 18 = 14,15 19 = 15 20 = 15 21 = 15,16,17 22 = 17,18 23 = 18,19 24 = 20,21 25 = 22,23,24 26 = 26 27 = 1996 September 1 28 = 3,4 29 = 3,4,5 30 = 5,6,7,8 31 = 9,10 32 = 10,11 33 = 12,13 34 = 16 35 = 18 36 = 19,20,21 37 = 22,23,24 38 = 24,25 39 = 27,28 40 = 29,30 41 = 1996 October 1,2 42 = 3,4,5 43 = 6 44 = 8,9 45 = 10 46 = 14,15 47 = 15 48 = 17 49 = 24,26 50 = 28,29 51 = 29,30 52 = 1996 October 31, November 1,2 53 = November 3 54 = 5 55 = 7,8,9 56 = 10,11,12 57 = 12,13 58 = 14 59 = 17 60 = 19,20 61 = 21 62 (Number 62 contained only repetitions of earlier messages.) 63 = 21 64 = 21,23 65 = 24,25,26 66 = 26,27 67 = 28,29 68 = 29,30 69 = 28,29,30 70 = 1996 November 30, December 1 71 = December 1,2 72 = 2,3 73 = November 29, December 1,3 74 = November 29, December 3,4 75 = December 3,4 76 = December 5 77 = 5 78 = 5,6 79 = 6,7 80 = 7,8 81 = 8,9 82 = 9,10 83 = 9,10,11,12 84 = 11 85 = 12,13 86 = 13,14 87 = 15,16 88 = 17,18,19 89 = 18,19 90 = 19,20 91 = 20,21 92 = 22,23 93 = 24,25 94 = 26,28 95 = 1996 December 29,30 _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers