Ken wrote:
...
> Without putting down what you say too much but many a
> comapany has gone out of business because of the attitude
> "we have always done it like that why change now".
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> tyl### [at] pacbellnet

Fortunately, few of us are here for the money.

-Mark R.

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Mark Radosevich wrote:
> 
> Fortunately, few of us are here for the money.
> 
> -Mark R.

I was generalizing.
-- 
Ken Tyler

tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>George Ganoe wrote:
>
>> 
>> Compuserve has been POV-Ray's home since its beginning.  I think
>> the long time members feel more at home there, and are used to
>> the mode of operations available to them there.  There are some
>> features of Compuserve that don't exist to my knowledge on the
>> internet which are useful to the team.
>> 
>> You may be right that the majority of networked programming and
>> raytracing is currently on the internet, but when POV started,
>> Compuserve had more users than the internet.
>> 
>>                 George
>
>Without putting down what you say too much but many a
>comapany has gone out of business because of the attitude
>"we have always done it like that why change now".

Compuserve provides us with a comfortable and private environment with which we
are all comfortable. There are no advantages for us in giving that up.
Therefore we choose to keep it.

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On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:39:39 GMT, povray.org admin team 
	<new### [at] DESPAMpovrayorg> wrote:
>Compuserve provides us with a comfortable and private environment with which we
>are all comfortable. There are no advantages for us in giving that up.
>Therefore we choose to keep it.

I hate to disagree, because it doesn't really matter to me where the Team
chooses to work so long as you keep giving us great toys, but one advantage 
to giving it up would be finding a few more qualified people to help spread 
the workload.  At present, the only way to be a Team member is to be good, 
be dedicated, be invited, ... and be willing to pay for a Compuserve account.  
There are lots of people who would probably make great additions to the Team 
were it not for the fact that they'll never switch ISPs, and can't justify
the additional expense of a Compuserve account.

There are other comfortable and private environments on the Internet at large,
though they might require some acclimatization: private news servers, private 
FTP/web sites, invite-only IRC channels...

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>be dedicated, be invited, ... and be willing to pay for a Compuserve account.

Not necessarily. Since we have our own forum, we have a number of discretionary
free accounts. That's not to say that we have any spare, but I wanted to make
the point that we have more support from Compuserve than you seem to think.

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