Well, I was tossing some ideas around, and I thought of putting a link to
ftp.povray.org as the file library link. But, it's outdated. Heavily. For
example, the most recent version of Moray on there is 2.5. That's quite a
bit out of date. In fact, most of the files deal with Pov-Ray 2.2 or
earlier.

I also thought of doing something that I see the larger sites, like
PlanetQuake , etc. have done, and that's have their files hosted by Walnut
Creek CDrom. (www.cdrom.com). Unfortunately, much as I'd love to think I
have a popular site, it's not that big. I doubt that they would consider it.
I'm gonna write them an email right away, but I'm not hoping for much.
(also, Chris, if you read this, please let me know if this would be out of
line.)

Now, I need to save bandwidth. If I could find someone willing to give me
LOTS of space (twysted.net, before I took it down the first time, was up to
85 megs in size.) on a fast connection just for file storage, I'd be
eternally grateful. Tripod, GeoCities, Xoom, etc. are not options, as they
specifically say they don't want file archives.

In the file library, I plan on putting everything downloadable into it.
Patches, include files, textures, programs, everything.

If anyone can help, please let me know. Also, money _is_ an object. I have
no spare cash, so if it's gonna cost me a lot of money, then I can't do it.


twyst

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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:32:27 -0600, Twyst wrote:
>Well, I was tossing some ideas around, and I thought of putting a link to
>ftp.povray.org as the file library link. But, it's outdated. Heavily. For
>example, the most recent version of Moray on there is 2.5. That's quite a
>bit out of date. In fact, most of the files deal with Pov-Ray 2.2 or
>earlier.
>
>I also thought of doing something that I see the larger sites, like
>PlanetQuake , etc. have done, and that's have their files hosted by Walnut
>Creek CDrom. (www.cdrom.com). 

[...]

Wasn't Walnut Creek the company that was going to come out with a new
POV CD that wasn't going to have anything to do with the POV-Team?
If you haven't already seen it, they have a povray directory, which
contains an amalgam of the current ftp.povray.org and what ftp.povray.org 
used to look like, before the great purge.

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Hi Twyst,
be there, looked at the links section:
I found most of the things quite easy, so the design is good that way.
Perhaps you could give more links at a time, just 10 was a bit few.
Something noteworthy, could you add supported platforms to the programs?
Like a small icon (flying windows, pinguins, demons...) for each and
checkboxes at the submit page? I just regret every time I see something,
that is of no use to me. (Or even limited)

Another question about the submits? I was almost submitting terraform,
just to check it out. But then I wondered wether I should give mine or
the authors adress for contact. I haven't used it once, so I am not that
well suited for contact.

Axel

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Axel Hecht <ah### [at] numerikuni-kielde> wrote in message
news:37A84F24.2AF8547C@numerik.uni-kiel.de...
> Hi Twyst,
> be there, looked at the links section:
> I found most of the things quite easy, so the design is good that way.
> Perhaps you could give more links at a time, just 10 was a bit few.

Ok. 25 good?

> Something noteworthy, could you add supported platforms to the programs?
> Like a small icon (flying windows, pinguins, demons...) for each and
> checkboxes at the submit page? I just regret every time I see something,
> that is of no use to me. (Or even limited)

I'll give that a shot.

>
> Another question about the submits? I was almost submitting terraform,
> just to check it out. But then I wondered wether I should give mine or
> the authors adress for contact. I haven't used it once, so I am not that
> well suited for contact.

Use your address. That way I can contact you if there are any problems,
instead of an author who'd have no idea what's going on . =D

>
> Axel

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Twyst wrote:

> The next section I'll work on is the links.. Ken, care to take this position
> once I get the system in place? =D
> thanx,
> Twyst

I don't mind contributing links to your site but it is not my idea of a good
time plugging 750 links into your system one at a time. There has got to be
an easier way :) Might I suggest that I send you a copy of my html version of
the links and you can simply use them as a seperate attraction to your links ?
Or if you prefer I can send the aforementioned collection to you and you can
then incorporate them in some other format that suits your needs.

-- 
Ken Tyler
  
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:37A89D61.DAEA40E1@pacbell.net...
>
>
> Twyst wrote:
>
> > The next section I'll work on is the links.. Ken, care to take this
position
> > once I get the system in place? =D
> > thanx,
> > Twyst
>
> I don't mind contributing links to your site but it is not my idea of a
good
> time plugging 750 links into your system one at a time. There has got to
be
> an easier way :) Might I suggest that I send you a copy of my html version
of
> the links and you can simply use them as a seperate attraction to your
links ?
> Or if you prefer I can send the aforementioned collection to you and you
can
> then incorporate them in some other format that suits your needs.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm


Heh. It's not MY idea of a good time, either. But I do have a CGI app that
will bulk-add a large list of links (or I can use Excel, too. :D ) - I've
done it before. If you want to send them, great! I'll do the grunt work. =D.
I know I need to re-organize the links I do have, anyways. The categories
aren't the best.

Twyst

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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:21:44 +0200, Spider <spi### [at] bahnhofse> wrote:

>Twyst wrote:
[snip]

Hi Twyst, good to see you back.

I have to concur with some of the other voices here with a distinct
preferance for a lean, clean interface (text aint so bad you know).

>
>> 5) Advertising
>Banners can be survived, popupwindows CANNOT.
>
This can't be emphasised enough. Banners don't aggravate half as much
as annoying pop-up windows!

If I can think of any way to help, I'll offer up as and when.


Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
Why not pay my 3D Dr Who site a visit at http://www.who3d.cwc.net/
PS change ".duffcom" to ".net" if replying via e-mail

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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:47:34 -0600, "Twyst" <twy### [at] twystednet> wrote:

>Well, as the overwhelming response is 'No Flash', I won't be using it.
>
>Here's a new question: What browsers are people running? I do try to keep my
>site text-friendly, but I need to know how high a level I should be using.
> should I restrict myself to IE 3.0 and netscape 2? (god, I hope not!) )
>
IE5 - actually the version which ships with Win98SE (which I *think*
is the latest version of IE5).


Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
Why not pay my 3D Dr Who site a visit at http://www.who3d.cwc.net/
PS change ".duffcom" to ".net" if replying via e-mail

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Twyst wrote:

> Heh. It's not MY idea of a good time, either. But I do have a CGI app that
> will bulk-add a large list of links (or I can use Excel, too. :D ) - I've
> done it before. If you want to send them, great! I'll do the grunt work. =D.
> I know I need to re-organize the links I do have, anyways. The categories
> aren't the best.
> 
> Twyst

  They have been sent. Have they been recieved ? If not you can get an exact
duplicate of what I sent from the announcement group on this server.

-- 
Ken Tyler
  
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm

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Yep, got them...


Thanx. =D


Twyst.

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