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At 6:41 PM -0400 2004-06-13, Garance A Drosehn wrote:

>  So, maybe something like "log.t2004f14a" instead of "log.0".
>  I could obviously spell out the time more, but that would
>  be an even longer suffix...

	Could this be a configuration option?  For maximum compression, 
maybe base64 the ctime, but for maximum readability use YYYY-MM-DD?

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