On Tue, 08 Mar 2016, Markus Reschke wrote to mark lewis:

 MR>> htick does it directly with the proper configuration ;)

 ml> can the format and information given in the posts be customized? 
 ml> is there some sort of template files that can be used for 
 ml> different areas??

 MR> Sorry, it's hard coded.

ouch :(  perhaps someone could look at how allfix's report templates work
and implement something similar where we operators can design how we want
our announcement messages to look and the information we want them to
carry...

 MR> From the documentation:

i assume that this stanza can be repeated with different values so that
certain areatags can be announced in area1 and other areatags can be
announced in area2??

)\/(ark