For every other piece of obscure knowledge, there's the letters editor.

The letters editor joined the throng, hoping for a word before the first meeting began.

You know, I discovered that our letters editor was passing letters critical of the former regime onto the secret services.

Before becoming letters editor, he was an assistant metropolitan editor, suburban editor and reporter.

Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, my core belief as letters editor is that healthy, informed debate is the lifeblood of a strong democracy.

About Letters Thomas Feyer, the letters editor, gives tips for getting your letter published.

Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter, takes an even more bullish view.

As letters editor Thomas Feyer points out, The Times does occasionally print correspondence of this sort.

The letters editors at several newspapers around the country said they had received almost no mail on the subject from the typically vociferous and opinionated Soviet public.