I've noticed that some of the newsgroups aren't available in the web-view, 
especially the povray.tools.* groups.  povray.off-topic I can understand not 
being available from the web-view (even though it appears that it is, but 
then it doesn't work).

I'm just wondering if this was an oversight, or if there is another reason 
behind it.  I've seen a couple questions that have been posted in other 
places as a result.  I guess my own selfish interest is seeing the 
povray.tools.* groups become more lively, and I'm wondering if that would 
help.

Thanks.

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Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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In article <41532e5c$1@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay" 
<jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote:

> I've noticed that some of the newsgroups aren't available in the web-view,
> especially the povray.tools.* groups.

They are available.

>  povray.off-topic I can understand not
> being available from the web-view (even though it appears that it is, but
> then it doesn't work).

??? The off-topic group is not available in the web view at all.  And it has
not been available for a long time either.

    Thorsten

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Previously the web interface did not allow posting new messages
or replys in the tools groups. I see new messages are now enabled,
but I'm still unable to post a reply (using the web interface).

-Mark Slone

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"Renderdog" <slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote in message 
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> Previously the web interface did not allow posting new messages
> or replys in the tools groups. I see new messages are now enabled,
> but I'm still unable to post a reply (using the web interface).

I saw your Poser 5 message in the macintosh group last month, and when I 
recently checked here: http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups, I saw 
that these groups were still not listed.  I didn't realize that there was a 
difference between that site and http://news.povray.org/groups.

I guess that also partly explain's Thorsten's "???" when I mentioned that I 
could see the off-topic group, but that clicking on the "web-view" didn't 
work.

I feel somewhat responsible for the creation of the .poser group, so I also 
feel somewhat responsible for keeping it alive.  I thought that it would be 
livlier than it is.  Are you using Poser 5 now?  I haven't used it as much 
as I expected that I would, but I'm still glad that I bought it. 
Additionally, there's more of a learning curve than I expected.  ;-)

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Jeremy
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"Jeremy M. Praay" <sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I feel somewhat responsible for the creation of the .poser group, so I also
> feel somewhat responsible for keeping it alive.  I thought that it would be
> livlier than it is.  Are you using Poser 5 now?  I haven't used it as much
> as I expected that I would, but I'm still glad that I bought it.
> Additionally, there's more of a learning curve than I expected.  ;-)

Unfortunately work consumed all my free time this past month
so my POVCOMP entry bit the dust. I've put Poser aside for now
but I'm hoping to return to it after I finish my Venice scene this
Winter.

I'm glad there's a Poser tools group here and I'm sure I'll be making
good use of it in the future.

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"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message 
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>
>>  povray.off-topic I can understand not
>> being available from the web-view (even though it appears that it is, but
>> then it doesn't work).
>
> ??? The off-topic group is not available in the web view at all.  And it 
> has
> not been available for a long time either.
>

Just to be a little more clear on this, if you go to 
http://www.povray.org/resources and click on the "POV-Ray Newsgroups" link, 
it takes you to http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups.  From there, if 
you click on "[web view]" for "off-topic", it takes you to 
http://news.povray.org/groups.  Additionally, the new groups are not listed 
there, but they are linked to indirectly.  I guess this was an oversight on 
my part.  I didn't recheck the news.povray.org site.

But anyway, my point was that I understand why the the off-topic group does 
not allow reading and posting from the web-interface.  Somehow, you seem to 
keep misinterpreting my posts.  In the future, please feel free to kindly 
ask for a clarification if there is something that you do not understand. 
Sometimes my questions are probably worded strangely, but your tone makes me 
hesitant to post relevant questions.  I don't believe that helps anyone.

Thank you, Thorsten.

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Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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In article <4153791c$1@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay" 
<sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> I saw your Poser 5 message in the macintosh group last month, and when I
> recently checked here: http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups, I saw
> that these groups were still not listed.  I didn't realize that there was a
> difference between that site and http://news.povray.org/groups.

Given that the one is (rather well hidden) on www.povray.org and the other
is the main entry page of news.povray.org, you post was about as confusing
as it possibly could have been.  Usually when talking about web pages it is
extremely helpful to provide the link to prevent such communication
problems.  As time permits the resources page will be updated, thanks for
pointing this out.

    Thorsten

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In article <web.41536c346bf5a4855d1daba0@news.povray.org> , "Renderdog" 
<slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote:

> Previously the web interface did not allow posting new messages
> or replys in the tools groups. I see new messages are now enabled,
> but I'm still unable to post a reply (using the web interface).

Ah, strange, looks like I forgot to enable that in the database...

    Thorsten

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"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message 
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> In article <4153791c$1@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay"
> <sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
>> I saw your Poser 5 message in the macintosh group last month, and when I
>> recently checked here: http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups, I saw
>> that these groups were still not listed.  I didn't realize that there was 
>> a
>> difference between that site and http://news.povray.org/groups.
>
> Given that the one is (rather well hidden) on www.povray.org and the other
> is the main entry page of news.povray.org, you post was about as confusing
> as it possibly could have been.  Usually when talking about web pages it 
> is
> extremely helpful to provide the link to prevent such communication
> problems.  As time permits the resources page will be updated, thanks for
> pointing this out.
>


I will try to remember to use those words against you at my earliest 
convenience.  Thank you for stepping down off your pedestal to reply in such 
a condescending manner.

-- 
Jeremy
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In article <41545a12@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay" 
<jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote:

> I will try to remember to use those words against you at my earliest
> convenience.  Thank you for stepping down off your pedestal to reply in such
> a condescending manner.

There was nothing personal or non-factual in my reply, so I don't see why
you turn this into a personal insult.

    Thorsten

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