October wrote:


>   The povray community can remain in the shadows of elitism;  resources
> mouldering in a rickety maze of links and REDUNDANT websites.
> 
> To those who have been offended by my linking policy, I apologize sincerely.
> To those who will miss seeing their hard work promoted through my site and
> forums, I apologize sincerely.  If you are interested in having your website
> and/or resources catalouged in a future listing, or stored for archive
> purposes (so those new to povray can find all the good stuff without surfing
> hundreds of websites), please email me.

 I think you are misinterpreting our criticism and over reacting. No one
minds you providing a well researched collection of POV-Ray resource links
together in one place. In fact you will find that I, above all others that
frequent these groups, do more to promote the sharing of Pov related resources
than anyone else. I can't remember the number of people I have cajoled into
putting their material on a web page so that I might provide a link to it in
my collecion. All of this so that others may learn and or bennifit from the
sharing of information and resources.
  The one thing I have been very careful about however is making sure that
I advertise the site along with the resource. There are maybe 5 links out
of 1400 that will allow you to directly download a file. The rest require
you to visit the site to get the files. I used to do more linking directly
to the files but I got several complaints. One person mentioned that his
ISP complained about the direct links coming from my site. They almost
pulled his account.
 In the three years I have been doing this now I have had nothing but positive
comments from people because I have helped increase traffic to their sites.
Additionaly in the three years I have been doing this I have learned a lot
about internet protocol and one of the important things I have learned is
that you do not link directly to files on someone elses web site without
permission.



-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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