"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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| "Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
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| > 1)  Could the team set up a new newsgroup, and call it
| > povray.binaries.povrayteamownscopyright ?
| >       Then the team could sell a CD of this work!
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|   The biggest question is if there would be adequate interest in such
| a CD. Chris Cason already spends considerable time and effort organizing
| the IRTC CD-ROM plus incurs the initial manufacturing costs before
| distribution. If he spends all of the time necessary to put a CD like
| this together he will need to know if it will sell well or he will end
| up with boxes full of worthless table coasters.
|
| Would everyone here buy one ?

I probably would not.
Only a small number of the total number of messages and attachments are relevant
enough to me personally.  Even though there are many that would have been nice
to have permanently archived which I didn't gather the first time I came across
them it wouldn't be enough to justify buying, and even moreso not justify the
creation of the CD in my case anyhow.
That's what makes me think that on average most of the content here wouldn't be
termed consumable enough for the masses.  That's considering the relatively
small number of constant message posters and larger number of readers which all
might still see only a portion of the entire content at news.povray.org as
relevant material as well.  The major problem I think is that if there is
something a person likes then that person more often than not probably already
has collected up the message and/or attachment anyway and whatever else they
might miss wouldn't amount to a whole lot perhaps.  It would be different for a
person who has seen the newsgroups here for the first time (future visitors too)
and would have to sift through the thousands of posts.
I think I just long-windedly said "not me" again.
This brings up the question of how suitable such a thing would be a year or more
from now when the eventual content becomes much greater than currently is, and
that would mean to be thinking of the future when dealing with the maintenance
of these groups as to what happens to the past articles (which brought about
this whole topic I guess).

Bob

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