Hey Wilfred!

 WvV> Unless your application can crosspost a single written message
 WvV> to multiple other areas? They all need different MSGID's...

Do you have a reference for that?  I was under the impression that dupe
checking is an AREA specific thing.  Do you want to check that?  I'd be willing
to crosspost a msg just to see what happens at your end.  It will have to wait
until later today as I am just about to head out the door and will be gone for
a couple hours.  Even retired people need to take care of 'business'.

 WvV> If I were using a message editor that could and was configured
 WvV> to display different charactersets.

That is doable.  However I wouldn't trust the CHRS kludge for that
functionality especially LATIN-1 since there is no such encoding ... errr ...
at least not one acceptable to useful tools like iconv.  Again this is a matter
for proper universally accepted standards and not some silly broken FTN kludge.
 The CHRS documentation requires a wholesale edit methinks and first to get the
heave-ho should be the nonexistant LATIN-1 alias.

Life is good,
Maurice

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