Samuel T. Benge wrote:
> It seems my favorite newsgroup on the POV-Ray news server has been 
> darkened by pornography. Of course I'm talking about binaries.images. 
> Webster's dictionary defines pornography as, "obscene literature or 
> pictures." Can you call what has been posted anything less? There is a 
> time and a place for such things, but I never thought the POV-Ray 
> newsgroups would be one of the places.
> 
> It is because of this I won't be posting anything there anymore. I don't 
> have to put up with people who insist what they are doing 'has to be 
> accepted'. I am not blind to the world portrayed in those images, but I 
> don't have to be reminded *every time* I visit the newsgroups. As a side 
> note, my message filters don't work or else I'd use them.
> 
> Am I the only one (besides Greg, Tyler, Bob, and Patrick) who feels this 
> way? Please speak up, or else nothing will be done about it. I hope to 
> enjoy these newsgroups again someday.
> 
> Happy Raytracing Everyone~
> 
> -Samuel Benge
> 

i find it perturbing that the image displayed contains a second.

having had a look at the home page - free areas, i'm inclined to the
view that potentially i'm exposing myself to legal consequences, if i 
happen to save one image that's nice, but contains something else.

i personally would prefer that images posted are signed as not having
a secondary image embedded, failing that the source is available and
attributable to its source.

that to me implies some requirement/ notion of honour on the part of the 
author/poster, for me that is not a problem, for some however it's a 
problematical concept.

stephen parkinson

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