On 19/12/2015 12:36, Andrew Sullivan wrote: <snip> > Finally, there's been a great deal of worry about the lack of > cross-area review that we get these days,... I'd want objective evidence that we get less cross-area review than at some date in the past before worrying a great deal. It seems to me that we are actually doing it more systematically than in the past. >... but it doesn't seem to me > that the meetings obviously help with that except by accident. But those accidents - hearing about something by chance that you would never discover by chance on-line - are a major part of the advantage of our plenary weeks. Being all in one place and time zone allows those useful accidents to happen. Brian