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Crikey - eight pages of comments over what some firm is doing with their working arrangements - significantly greater news items have come and gone in the Gazette and not received half that amount.

Mr Senile (I can't say whether you've earned the rank of Captain or not) I'm not sure if you're having a laugh or being serious. If you don't fancy a particular way of working, don't do it. That simple really.

Fact is, anyone who already uses email for work purposes is part-way towards a paperless office. Everything else is a question of degree. Not saying that we'll do away with paper completely (as we'd need legislation to deal with things like deeds, wills, declarations and the like) but there's a balance to be struck.

If you are in your early 40s then you should have the best of both worlds, young enough to embrace technology, old enough to respect its limitations. I'm (just) a little younger than you and I know what you can and can't do electronically, that doesn't mean I throw the baby out with the bathwater.

And maybe you like your desk too much to ever give it up. That's ok too. But I'm nowehere near arrogant enough to suggest that what works best for me, works best for everyone else. Different areas of practice have different requirements so what a conveyancer needs is going to be very different to someone doing police station work.

Horses for courses, Sir, horses for courses. Just don't send the thoroughbreds to the slaughterhouse because you're a little short on glue.