Hi Michael--

 > I need this change too at some stage, so I've spent some time on it.

      FYI, the Spoon VM modifications[1] address all such messages, so 
that remote message-sending works transparently for all messages.


-C

[1]  http://netjam.org/spoon/releases/current

      (The "this is alpha" warning there is not referring to the VM 
modifications. :)