The Need For Evidence Lurk long enough on any mailing list, and you'll always find a few ideas that refuse to go away.
Process is Just Plain Wrong.
All of them are good subjects if you're feeling lonely and fancy reading some email. It's easy to be dismissive of these debates, but they're often a sign that there's some fundamental problem or common misunderstanding that needs to be addressed. Alaric Snell characterized the reaction of many developers when faced with XML for the first time. This reaction is likely to be a kind of gut feeling. Unfortunately gut reactions rarely lead to good results when it comes to optimization.