: What does the small number in brackets after the date of the
: POST represent (on the main board)???

That's the number of replies which have been posted in followup beneath that particular message. The numbers become meaningless when I create the archives, since I don't update them where I break the threads. The posting script seems to use these numbers to determine how many messages it needs to update to indicate a followup was posted (I think).

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