Hacking Gmail

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Chapter 5 — How Gmail Works 87


D([“mi”,2,2,”101876847addcbd1”,0,”0”,”Ben
Hammersley”,”[email protected]”,”Ben”,”8:59pm (13
minutes ago)”,[“Ben Hammersley [email protected]”]
,[]
,[]
,[“Ben Hammersley [email protected]”]
,”Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:59:13 +0100”,”Re: This is the third
message”,”And this is a reply back On Tue, 18 Jan 2005
16:05:17 +0100, Ben Hammersley <...”,[]
,1,,,”Tue Jan 18 2005_11:59AM”]
);
D([“mi”,0,3,”10187696869432e6”,0,”0”,”Ben
Hammersley”,”[email protected]”,”me”,”8:59pm (12 minutes
ago)”,[“Ben Hammersley [email protected]”]
,[]
,[]
,[]
,”Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:59:40 +0100”,”Re: This is the third
message”,””,[]
,1,,,”Tue Jan 18 2005_11:59AM”]
);
D([“mb”,”And this is another reply back yet again
”,1]
);
D([“mb”,”

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<span class=e
216.239.057.105.00080-192.168.016.051.61753:
id=q_10187696869432e6_1>
On 18 Jan 2005, at 20:59, Ben
Hammersley wrote:

> And this is a reply
back
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:05:17
+0100, Ben Hammersley
> <<a onclick=\”return
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\”
href=\”mailto:[email protected]\”>[email protected]</a



> wrote:
>> 3rd! THREE!
THIRD!
>>
>>

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);
D([“ce”]);



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As you can deduce,thdoes indeed stand for thread. In Gmail, it turns out, you do


not just retrieve single messages. Rather, you retrieve the requested message and
also the entire set of headers for the rest of the messages in the thread. You can see

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