Sebastian wrote --

> I have never claimed to have a doctorate, you know, and do not in fact
> have one. it demeans the achievements of others to casually assign me
> credit I do not possess

Many apologies.

>
>  >  But I am sure that other list members
>  > will be more constructive than he.
>
> My apologies, I did not realize that only contributions from serious
> mathematicians were allowed. Scientists rule, OK?

No please no!  We want to know what rules and heuristics
forward-looking authors, designers and editors think should be in this
`silver bullet' software, or even in our `lead shot' software.


chris