Re: folders which are numerical names

Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.nmh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi George,

> So I work around it by having archives like sent/y2021 and it works
> fine.

I have sequences for years within a folder, e.g. y98, and y24.  They
have to have a prefix to avoid clashing with message numbers as
sequences don't have a sigil whereas folders have ‘+’ or ‘@’.

But even if context or something else meant I could drop the ‘y’,
I'm not sure I would as it's a clue to the reader than 98 isn't
a message number.

So I wonder if you should move to prefixing with ‘y’ more widely to give
consistency; then the difference wouldn't niggle.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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