I would like to suggest that if part of our group think it is worthwhile to attempt to construct a standard character list for one or more (or all) kingdoms (to which I am not opposed) that we have an additional first level topic identifier for subject lines in our postings (currently we use GEN, RQT and XML).

Whatever happened to Richard Pankhurst's TDWG-based attempt to come up with a minimum character set (or something) for just the (vascular? seed? flowering?) plants? I seem to remember there was a fair bit of wailing, gnashing of teeth and slitting of wrists over this exercise...

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