"SharkD" <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Chris B wrote:
>> Well I'm glad you pointed that out, I hadn't noticed that geocities was 
>> going.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris B.
>
> There are *lots* of POV-Ray related pages hosted on GeoCities. I'm afraid 
> they will all disappear as well.
>
> :(
>
> -Mike

Maybe it's worth a thread on povray.general to try and prompt people to move 
their POV-Ray stuff across to alternative sites while there's still time.

I did a Google, restricting the domain for the search to geocities.com and 
it came back with 540 results, some of which are the same author. It might 
be possible to organise a little community project to make attempts to 
contact authors to save some of that. We'd need to be a little organised to 
avoid spamming authors. Some sites may also give explicit permission for 
someone else to copy the content. I'll see if I can get a list off in 
machine readable format.

Last night I copied POV-House onto freewebsites.com, which was a relatively 
painless process: http://povhouse.freewebsites.com/
I still need to go through and update some links and the free web hosting 
sites don't seem to support zip files anymore (or .pov or .inc extensions), 
so I put the downloadable files onto MediaFire and linked them into the new 
freewebsites.com page.
It only took a couple of hours to do and I plan to do the same with my other 
geocities POV sites.

It might be an opportune time to see whether previous generations of macro 
and include file authors would be willing for their work to be loaded onto 
the POV-Ray Object Collection instead of them having to bother with their 
old web sites.

Regards,
Chris B.

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