(sorry for the repost, wrong date... I still wonder why the server
takes the sender's computer's date, instead of putting his own date)

My .02 Euros about the Cserve Povray forum.

Using a Cserve account since 3 years, I think that the latest news are
good news.
The povray forum had 2 advantage over the internet :
- early access to beta releases
- contacting the pov-team directly

But, since approx 1,5 years, the Pov-activity over the Internet has
grown so much :
- ever-growing IRTC
- news.povray.org, with *hot* discussions, many people listening and
talking, new images everyday...
- useful sites as twysted.net, and related macrostation, links, etc...
- increasing number of people playing with sources, making patches...
- a very nice "communauty" spirit.

in comparison, the Cserve forum looked very pale;  those who didn't had
access to these
shouldn't regret it !

Now that things are gonna move, my only hope is that the Pov-Team won't
be bothered too much
by people who will abuse of their new "reachability".  (you know,
problems like the ones they 
had with POV 2 public betas).

I think that, as a communauty, it's part of our responsibility to help
avoid such problems.

Cheers,
Fabien.

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Graham Redway wrote:

>  However, it will be sad to lose the large galleries of images that
> have accumalted over time and I only hope they will be copied to
> Povray.org.

We have taken steps to preserve the entire library from CIS,  however, it may be
some time before you see any of it here on the server.

Dale,

(POV-Team)

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The tone of your speech while giving credits reminds me of the Oscar
night. That's right, the team must be given an Oscar (implicit, truly
reflective, specular and eventually photon mapped) for overall
contribution to the computer graphics world.

Everyone leaves home when he/she feels adult enough. I will not miss
CIS since I never had access to it (in fact they banned Bulgarian and
Russian IPs due to a wave of false accounts etc.), but surely many
people, regulars at the forum, will. There's a good side to it,
though, as the POV community will now be more united than ever,
sharing the same shelter. It's a new page in POV history.

And one last thing, though it's not bedtime here yet and it's a bit
early for the evening prayer: Thank you people for devoting your time
and efforts for the sake of beauty and excellence. Amen.


---------
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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