Thanks for looking into it, it never hurts to ask :)

- Tim -

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> omniVERSE wrote:
> >
> > What might be best would be a misc.modelers group, somewhere for other
than
> > the Moray one in order to keep that separate and yet have a place
specific
> > to the topic.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Greetings,
>
>    I have talked to the POV-Team on your behalf and have this in reply to
> your request for a separate sPatch/3rd party software group on this
server.
>
>  The basic consensus is that the current structure of the groups is fine
> and seems to handle discussions of third party programs without the need
> for adding a new group for this purpose. The reason that Moray and POVLAB
> each have their own unique group is because the respective authors of
those
> programs also provide direct customer support in those groups besides the
> peer support of their user base. The POV-Team acknowledges the fact that
> sPatch is a popular program among POV-Ray users but Mike Clifton does not
> visit these groups and has shown no indication that he will offer any
> direct support for sPatch in this forum. The same is true for other
programs
> that support POV-Ray.
>
>   With that said the POV-Team has no problems with discussions of 3rd
> party software not related to POV-Ray on this server but do not feel
> these discussions merit their own dedicated group. It should also be
> noted that this server currently supports 27 different dedicated groups.
> We would like to keep this number down to a manageable level if at
> possible.
>
> Thank you for understanding our decision with regard to this request,
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group Member

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