Hello August!

*** Monday 14.09.20 at 00:02, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA> Have you had occassion to use this feature:


 AA> [Via S)pecial, A)ccess when highlighting a message area.]

Nope but I've just had a shuftie now and .....

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 AA> I don't quite understand WHY we would need this.

..... me neither.

 AA> At first I thought it was describing a kind of carbon-copy action.
 AA> But this is an actual change of course for messages to take?

Yes, it looks that way but what the implications would be is anyone's  
guess and I'm certainly not going to play about with it. You can, if you  
like though :-)))

Regards,
Martin

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