half an apology is better than none.

> | Scoring is a great tool, but beware the hammer/nail syndrome.
>
> Beware of the nail-but-no-hammer syndrome.  Often it's better to get the
> hammer out of the closet than to bang with one's shoe.
Suitably chastised, I offer an excuse:  Interesting how this weekend (in
contrast to the usual list traffic), complicated-looking scoring
techniques were offered by several people to solve several problems.

(I wasn't trying to put down score/weighting--I use it myself in some
recipes.)