The first six (or more) digits before the period identify the unique thread ID. (For those not familiar with forums in general, the term 'thread' is used to describe a series of individual forum posts that are ideally linked together by topic of discussion, but considering the organic and ever-changing nature of conversation in general that's rarely the case. More often than not, the only thing linking a particular message to a thread is the fact that it's a reply to a previous post that was a reply to a post preceding that one... and so on and so forth... And I'm rambling again... )
The digits after the period (ranging from 1 to 1000) represent that particular message's place in its thread. So message xxx.1 would be the first post in a thread, xxx.2 would be the second, xxx.365 would be the 365th post, and so on.)
Okay, I admit that's all dull and boring. But if you ever need to find or link to a specific message in the forums, it's something you'd need to know.
(I'll get into finding and linking to specific forum posts some other time.)
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