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This file was processed as: Mailbox/MIME Entity
(archive/mbox).
| Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
|
|---|
| 100%
| dexvert
| Newsgroup Content (archive/news)
| magic
| Supported |
| 100%
| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
| magic
| Supported |
| 100%
| dexvert
| Internet Message Format (text/imf)
| magic
| Supported |
| 1%
| dexvert
| Text File (text/txt)
| fallback
| Supported |
| 100%
| file
| news, ASCII text
| default
| |
| 100%
| checkBytes
| Printable ASCII
| default
| |
| 100%
| dexmagic
| PrintFox/Pagefox WEAK
| default
| |
| 100%
| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
| default
| |
| 100%
| siegfried
| fmt/950 MIME Email (1.0)
| default
| |
| 100%
| detectItEasy
| Format: plain text[LF]
| default (weak)
| |
| 100%
| xdgMime
| message/news
| default
|
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|000006c0| 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | 20 20 47 72 65 67 20 45 | | Greg E|
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