As I've mentioned offline, I think that if an exception message is set by the user, it may be a bad idea to clobber it
Yep. Sorry for my brain lapse before - I know what you mean now. By "clobber" you mean that ideally we shouldn't be touching the message at all, even to append text to the end of it.
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