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How about this... it's the easy way to settle this whole thing.
"By submitting your profile to <whoever> you hereby allow this profile to be
displayed world-wide via the Internet (or something like that) for an
undetermined period of time"
That way it's only if the person wants to... after all, someone filling this
thing out is only filling it out because they want others to see it right?
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Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <37d85b16@news.povray.org>...
>In article <37D8473F.882D28D2@Totalise.co.uk> , GRedway
><GRe### [at] Totalise couk> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can gather the privacy laws only apply to the country in
>> which the website is held and any person who uses this site assumes the
>> law of the nation applying them.
>> The Data Protection Act, 1989 (England) as it stands requires the
>> knowledge of the person whose data is being held on computer, this could
>> be included in a small disclamier, as long as the user knows his/her
>> data is being held on compueter it is not a problem (this could be
>> included in a disclaimer - the user hitting the 'submit' button
>> acknowledges the disclamier and agrees to it.
>>
>> Graham Redway
>
>I am referring to "Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament". For
>example available at
><http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/dataprot/directiv/directiv.html>. It is
>binding for all member states of the European Union. Some states have even
>stricter laws. I am not a lawyer and cannot explain the exact effects of
>this directive regarding the idea to setup a public database. If the
>database would break the laws of a state, I do not know the person owning
>the database can be prosecuted one he/she enters that state!?
>
>
> Thorsten
>
>
>____________________________________________________
>Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
>e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
>Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org
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Speaking of which, have I already been unknowingly added to this? LOL
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Peter Popov wrote in message ...
>What you just dscribed is the ICQ POV-Ray public chat room :)
>
>
>Peter Popov
>ICQ: 15002700
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These newsgroups are my database.
-Mike
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How do I access this chatroom? I am very new to ICQ, just signed on to
it yesterday, but have been on the #povray IRC channels for a while now.
I have been searching for this room, but I couldn't find anything about
it.
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Chris,
contact me over ICQ (see my sig) and we'll talk it over. There were
too many Chris Huffs on the ICQ network and none of them had your
e-mail, so...
Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700
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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:37D82862.740EEE42@pacbell.net...
> I have considered adding a Pov users galleries section to my collection
> but have resisted it simply because the sheer number of them that exist
> would be a maintence nightmare. People change websites and providers
> like clothing and it is hard to keep a "broken link" free page up to date.
> My current data base is already a serious challenge to keep up with and
> adding that section would seriously add to that burden. I may change my
> mind in the future but don't expect it anytime soon.
Can't you have a Perl script periodically "hit" the link, and verify that
it's still OK? The page can show current status, and eventually the dud can
be dropped.
--John
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"John M. Dlugosz" wrote:
>
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:37D82862.740EEE42@pacbell.net...
> > I have considered adding a Pov users galleries section to my collection
> > but have resisted it simply because the sheer number of them that exist
> > would be a maintence nightmare. People change websites and providers
> > like clothing and it is hard to keep a "broken link" free page up to date.
> > My current data base is already a serious challenge to keep up with and
> > adding that section would seriously add to that burden. I may change my
> > mind in the future but don't expect it anytime soon.
>
> Can't you have a Perl script periodically "hit" the link, and verify that
> it's still OK? The page can show current status, and eventually the dud can
> be dropped.
>
> --John
There are free programs available that will do this for you. For example
http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html is fairly well automated. The
only problem I have with these is that they can be easily fooled into
thinking that a site or resource is gone when in reality there may only be
a temporary problem with the site that causes it to return an error to
the link checker. I have spent considerable time locating some of the
more obscure link sites and I don't trust a program to decide for me
if it should be removed from the collection. Then again as I am now
approaching 1000 links and will be adding many more in then near
future my stubborness in this regard may have to be re-evaluated for
sake of convenience.
--
Ken Tyler
See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
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Povray.org should be doing this... ANd maybe if they could add this tee bit
of overhead as a registration essential. Povray can still remain freeware
but to use it you should update your details in the web site.....
(just an idea)
BR/Saadat
Rune S. Johansen <run### [at] inamecom> wrote in message
news:37d817af@news.povray.org...
> Would it be useful with a public database on the web containing
information
> about the users of POV-Ray?
>
> I thought of a website for all users of POV-Ray where one could registrate
> and submit as little or as much information one want to about oneself,
one's
> relationship with POV-Ray, about one's possible website and so on.
>
> Then anybody could search in the database and find information on other
> pov-users.
>
> The information the user might submit could be:
>
> o Names, nickname, e-mail.
>
> o Website address, description of website
> (especially POV-Ray related stuff).
>
> o Personal information: Age, gender, address
> (maybe not street but country, (state), and town...),
> hobbies, interests, other...
>
> o Relation to POV-Ray: For how many years, what one
> uses it for, to which "camp(s)" one belongs
> (photorealism, artist, math...), other...
>
> Keep in mind that one may submit as much or as little information as one
> wants to.
>
> The advantages of having such a database:
>
> o If one have seen a name for example in a newsgroup one
> could search for the name in the database and find
> background information on the person. I think that it
> would strengthen the POV-Ray community. When users
> know more about each other there will be less confusion,
> greater joy, and it may cause more people to post more
> to the group.
>
> o One could search for other people that have things in
> common with oneself (hobbies and so on...) and then
> visit their websites and/or contact them.
>
> o The database would also work as a kind of database of
> links to pov-users own websites. I know we have already
> big pov-links-collections but they tempt to lack in
> links to personal webpages that doesn't contain many
> useful resources but can be very interesting anyway.
>
> o If really many people registrate to the database people
> could search for other pov-users that live near
> themselves and it might encourage pov-users to meet each
> other in "real life".
>
> So what do you think of this idea?
> Is it a good idea and is it possible to make at all?
>
> There's probably a lot of advantages, disadvantages, and problems that I'm
> not aware of so please come with your thoughts.
>
> If it sounds like an good idea and is possible to make then I hope some
> people will be willing to work on the project.
> I myself know HTML and a little css and would like to contribute what I
can.
> Oh, and I can also make neat pov web graphics! ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rune S. Johansen
>
> ---
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> for 3D images including still lives, dragons,
> mathematical shapes, and more. Stereograms,
> tutorials, The POV Desktop Theme, hundreds of
> raytracing jokes, miscellaneous other things,
> and a lot of fun!
>
>
>
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Ken wrote:
>
> "John M. Dlugosz" wrote:
> >
> > Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> > news:37D82862.740EEE42@pacbell.net...
> > > I have considered adding a Pov users galleries section to my collection
> > > but have resisted it simply because the sheer number of them that exist
> > > would be a maintence nightmare. People change websites and providers
> > > like clothing and it is hard to keep a "broken link" free page up to date.
> > > My current data base is already a serious challenge to keep up with and
> > > adding that section would seriously add to that burden. I may change my
> > > mind in the future but don't expect it anytime soon.
> >
> > Can't you have a Perl script periodically "hit" the link, and verify that
> > it's still OK? The page can show current status, and eventually the dud can
> > be dropped.
> >
> > --John
>
> There are free programs available that will do this for you. For example
> http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html is fairly well automated. The
> only problem I have with these is that they can be easily fooled into
> thinking that a site or resource is gone when in reality there may only be
> a temporary problem with the site that causes it to return an error to
> the link checker. I have spent considerable time locating some of the
> more obscure link sites and I don't trust a program to decide for me
> if it should be removed from the collection. Then again as I am now
> approaching 1000 links and will be adding many more in then near
> future my stubborness in this regard may have to be re-evaluated for
> sake of convenience.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
Sounds like you want something similar but which simply writes failed
URLs to a file for your later perusal.
I'd rather check a dozen dubious links than your whole database.
Cheers, PoD.
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John M. Dlugosz wrote:
>
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:37D82862.740EEE42@pacbell.net...
> > I have considered adding a Pov users galleries section to my collection
> > but have resisted it simply because the sheer number of them that exist
> > would be a maintence nightmare. People change websites and providers
> > like clothing and it is hard to keep a "broken link" free page up to date.
> > My current data base is already a serious challenge to keep up with and
> > adding that section would seriously add to that burden. I may change my
> > mind in the future but don't expect it anytime soon.
>
> Can't you have a Perl script periodically "hit" the link, and verify that
> it's still OK? The page can show current status, and eventually the dud can
> be dropped.
>
> --John
I use a python script to check some 600 local users whether they have
webpages. And it takes several minutes to complete. It's just not the
kind of job to be done easy, I'm afraid. And you have to dig a bit until
you declared all the return codes good or bad, e.g. apache gives you a
302, temporarily moved, for aliases. Those are not at all temporary in
my case, so the checking of results is or can be quite painful
Axel
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