Squibs and Discussions Pierre Isabelle At the beginning of year 2000, there were 3 (re-) submissions in the pipeline. In the course of year 2000, 8 additional papers were (re-) submitted. At the end of the year, there was only one submission left in the pipeline. Thus, 10 decisions were made over year 2000. The results were as follows: * 3 papers accepted * 3 papers rejected * 4 invitations to revise and resubmit The mean time taken for these 10 decisions was 120 days, but on the on the 7 papers submitted in 2000, the mean time was down to 101 days. The geographical distribution of the 10 submissions by location of first author was: * Asia: 1 * Europe: 5 * North America: 4 Thus far, 10 papers have been (re-) submitted in 2001. This higher-than-usual rate partly due to a rise in the number of irrelevant submissions.