Bob Hughes wrote:

> Btw, this was originally going to be a reply to a post by Ken T. at
> povray.binaries.images about cleaning up the way message posts were
> done. Ken! I may have to yell at you, you almost made me post this in
> there instead! I swear, the very last second before I hit the Send
> button I noticed where I was and cut the text out for a new message
> here.
> 
> --
>  omniVERSE: beyond the universe



  The reason I posted my general comments about providing Pov-Ray scene
files, include files, and macro scripts is because a great many people
see something of considerable interest by another person and they are
naturally curious as to how it was accomplished. In the spirit of
Pov-Ray, and just because they are nice people, the originator of the
image in question will take quite a bit of effort to clean up his
messy source file and then post it as was originally requested. He does
so publicly so that all will benefit from his work and it gives one a
feeling of self worth when others ask for a piece of your talent. This
is great. I could not be more pleased about this kind of interactive
behaviour, in such a diverse cross section of humanity, as is present
in these groups. 
  Unfortunately trying to find these pearls of pov artistry can be a
nightmare when posted in the wrong group and buried under 25 layers
of other people comments on the image. I felt that the images group
is the one that is probably more out of control than any other so it
is the one I targeted with my request that we all work together to get
the information posted in the right places. You must remember too that
there will be people coming along a year from now that will want to see
what resources are available here on this server. In all likelihood
they will not go to the images group to find scene file material or
specialized macro functions. Instead they will look where it belongs
and they will miss about 25% of it because it was improperly posted in
the wrong discussion group.

 That is the why and the what of it. I really have no more to say on the
subject except:

 "Only you can prevent forest fires !"

and 

 "Give a hoot ! Don't pollute !".

  This has been a public service announcement brought to you by nobody
in particular on a subject that is probably only of passing interest to
all.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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