omniVERSE wrote:
> 
> What might be best would be a misc.modelers group, somewhere for other than
> the Moray one in order to keep that separate and yet have a place specific
> to the topic.
> 
> Bob

Greetings,

   I have talked to the POV-Team on your behalf and have this in reply to
your request for a separate sPatch/3rd party software group on this server.

 The basic consensus is that the current structure of the groups is fine
and seems to handle discussions of third party programs without the need
for adding a new group for this purpose. The reason that Moray and POVLAB
each have their own unique group is because the respective authors of those
programs also provide direct customer support in those groups besides the
peer support of their user base. The POV-Team acknowledges the fact that
sPatch is a popular program among POV-Ray users but Mike Clifton does not
visit these groups and has shown no indication that he will offer any
direct support for sPatch in this forum. The same is true for other programs
that support POV-Ray.

  With that said the POV-Team has no problems with discussions of 3rd
party software not related to POV-Ray on this server but do not feel
these discussions merit their own dedicated group. It should also be
noted that this server currently supports 27 different dedicated groups.
We would like to keep this number down to a manageable level if at
possible.

Thank you for understanding our decision with regard to this request,

-- 
Ken Tyler

POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group Member

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