Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 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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another alternative will be the complete renaming of the actual groupnames

(it's just an idea ;-), i know that i'am sometimes to taff ;-))

something like:

povray.programing => povray.binaries.developement
povray.programing.binaries => povray.binaries.developement.extensions

and the group povray.general should be splitted in

povray.common
povray.sdl
povray.sdl.developement

why? 2 facts

1. if developers (like me too) talk about loops, variables, functions, 
objects aso. they think about programming and i think that this is one 
of the problems for the misplacements in the group 'povray.programming'

2. the most visitors here need help about sdl/sdl-programming. only a 
few c/c++ experts like to talk about pov-source-developing. so, i think 
it's a questions of name-psychology too

oliver

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