so that they don't have to engage in a slow and lengthy question and answer session where the questioner is trying to extract (often painfully - to the questioner) prerequisite information

You are absolutely right: the questioning should not be painful for the questioner, but for the questioned. I think we should ask the gods to create a new section in the monastery where the monks with poorly defined problems are questioned by mean of the appropriate tools.

After all, nobody expects Spanish Inquisition.

Careful with that hash Eugene.

In reply to Re^2: Codes for the visitation of CGI web sever by several users at the same time by psini
in thread Codes for the visitation of CGI web sever by several users at the same time by Jansen

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