----- Original Message ----- From: "David Starner" <prosfilaes@gmail.com>

I think it important to have a list where discussions beyond 1) and 2) can be asked. We need to have a list where we can discuss the future of Unicode in PG, and things like that. It can cause extended arguments, but it can be checked politely, and those people who can't take a hint that enough is enough can be blocked. But I would really hate to limit the only place where indepth discussions on where PG is going and should be going can be held.

I agree wholeheartedly with David. The topics under discussion have almost never been the problem. It is the person(s) involved in the discussions that has been the problem. Remove the problem, not the discussions. And we do need to have a wide range of topics. For instance, I'm working on TEI, which I think is of vital importance to the future of PG (some may disagree). Discussions of TEI lead naturally into discussions of Unicode, graphic image formats, CSS, and other markup formats. Josh