The following is the (slightly amended) text of an e-mail message I have just sent to Paula Sonneveld at Kluwer Academic Publishers. It should be self-explanatory. If you agree with me about the questionnaire form, please send a message to Ms Sonneveld (paula.sonneveld@wkap.nl) saying so---it is only by concerted action that we can check the spread of this bureaucratic nonsense. Peter Johnstone ___________________________________________________________________ Dear Ms Sonneveld, I have just sent you a report on paper no. (deleted) by (name deleted), which you asked me to referee for the journal `Applied Categorical Structures'. Having refereed several papers for this journal, I am becoming increasingly irritated by the questionnaire form which you send out with every paper. Several of the questions on this form are invariably irrelevant to mathematical papers, and those that do have some relevance are almost always impossible to answer with a straight `yes' or `no'---the only sensible answer is `read my detailed report'. So it seems to me that the questionnaire is a complete waste of time and paper. I therefore wish to inform you that, although I remain entirely willing to referee papers for `Applied Categorical Structures', I shall in future ignore any papers which you send to me accompanied by this questionnaire. I further intend to publicize this decision via the `Categories' electronic mailing list, and to urge other category-theorists who have refereed for APCS and who agree with me about the uselessness of this form to take the same action. Yours sincerely, Peter Johnstone