Robin Fairbairns writes: > Each to his own, but let's *not* waste ANY MORE BANDWIDTH on the LaTeX > mailing list about it. And please let's not play silly buggers > mime-ifying messages that don't need them, OK? thanks very much for a) changing the subject some time ago b) suggesting to stop this type of extremely unproductive discussion contrary to some people who seem to write interesting remarks to any topic they see flying by during the day i do scan this type of mail usually in the evening after work which means that a) i pay for every mail message that comes through my phone line which is a lot b) i easily overlook the interesting messages c) i don't get much time to productively work on *real* stuff that might be useful to others i think it would be much more helpful if people would write less handwaving mails and instead think a bit first and then produce more thoughtful messages instead of just making sure that everybody knows they are currently online to the questions discussed lately on this list this would be (from my point of view) - further comments on the interface proposal for frontmatter - an alternative proposal with reasoning why different - thoughts on keyword value syntax for such a proposal - or some older stuff like language interfaces; nobody ever bothered to argue the ideas brought forward by chris and me in that article for TUG97 - or ... all under an appropriate subject line please frank (feeling frustated after a day working on monitoring software for SAP --- and no, i don't what to know yor thoughts on SAP not on this list anyway :-)