Hi Barry,

From my point of view, it seems that you aren't getting how this community works.

The name of this place is The Monastery. It's supposed to be a calm, cool, quiet oasis of learning and understanding.

Once written, a node should be updated, not replaced wholesale, since that invalidates any followup nodes to the original post. Note changing the version number is particularly unhelpful -- what if someone were following your code? "Gee, this script looks different -- but it has the same version number -- oh wait, he changed the code but didn't change the version number. Wonder why he did that?"

Yes, the voting system seems a little cruel sometimes -- treat it like community feedback. If you get a few ++'s or --'s, that's OK. If you get lots of ++'s, you've written something pretty darn good. And if you get lots of --'s, your post was rotten.

Instead of flaming the useful feedback you get from your post, gratefully acknowledge it in the spirit it was given, and perhaps post again.

Spend time to carefully write your creation, enough time that you have covered the 'or die' error scenarios. Certainly, some web sites have very good uptime records, but the 'or die' is not useful when everything works well, but, like seatbelts, they will save you when something goes wrong.