In article <3f50c242@news.povray.org> , Oliver Jaxid <mai### [at] finniqcom>  
wrote:

> ok, ok, i am wrong
> (i 've readed the faq's now)

No problem.

> but i'am not the only one. minimum 50% of all articles in this group
> then are beeing wrong placed cause not about pov-source-programming. and
> this was the ground why i've posted here. so, i think that the names of
> the groups for pov-news-noobs are a little bit diffuse.

Indeed you have identified the biggest problem in this group.  While there
are only about 10% of misplaced articles those tend to attract more
unrelated articles as those who post new articles don't read whole thread of
the misplaced articles.  Somebody will eventually point out people are in
the wrong group, but the "problem" is that many people are "only" helpful
and forget to mention that it is the wrong group.  Thus, the first post
saying someone is in the wrong group ends up being reply being number
1042852, which nobody who makes a new posts reads :-(

The alternative would be to remove all misplaced articles, but then some
good questions and answers to them would be lost.

That said, many have suggested to rename this group many times, but over all
these years nobody ever came up with a better and still _short_ name...

    Thorsten

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