>>>>> In <microsoft-free.87y8jeubr1.fsf@youngs.au.com> Steve Youngs wrote:

> I've just discovered another problem.  Once `dns-mode' is invoked, I
> get a `DNS' menu in every new buffer (there's one in my message buffer
> right now).

That occurs only in XEmacs 21.4.  I have nothing to indicate but
found using easy-menu-add instead of easy-menu-add-item helps.
This is what message-mode (which is derived from text-mode as
well) does.