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More thoughts. First we need a name for this.
How about the MoGMN-Protocol? "Multicast over Guild Member Notes".
I think we would need two versions:
1) This one is limited to one Notes size. It's usefull for normal guild members that want to put in some announcement that can be auto-parsed by other addons.
2) This version is designed to split large messages over multiple notes, so the 254 Character Limit is not so much of a problem. It's designed for higher ups in the ranks that have the right to set Member Notes of other Members in addition to thier own. That way up too 500 * 200 Characters large Messages would be quite feasible.
On the Sender side this one would have to deal with issues like packages vanishing (members leaving or changing thier Note), becomming incomplete (someone needs more of thier Note Space for thier own message) and generally uncertain amount of data/Note (you might have 240 Characters after the headers, or only 20). On the receiver side there must be a way to differentiate between the packages of different messages.
Ideally members should be able to "opt in" for this. i.e. they put the proper Tag into thier notes, and the addon only writes to those who have been tagged (and only as much as the tag position allows).
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