Wow... has this thread gotten out of control. I answered the poll yesterday (before the flowchart) and read some of the discussion. Then I come back and see that there are 44 pages of discussion and an elaborate flowchart and just started laughing...
Poor Stringer... s/he thought it was such a simple poll -- only in this forum would it be parsed and picked apart to where you need to have to have a detailed pseudo-coded algorithm to get people to interpret it correctly.
Perhaps we could get Kovid to write a program to guide people to answering the question correctly. But then he would have to write a version for Kindle, Sony, Cybook.....
We are, indeed, the land of Babel!
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