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29 Jul 2024 02:29:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Some Wiki Cleanup  
From: MichaelJF
Date: 28 Jun 2013 14:45:01
Message: <web.51cdd8a37b9ae6768bb345070@news.povray.org>
"MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> > A while back someone was actively working on resolving some of the sites
> > that (like you pointed out) had moved or gone away. I'm not sure how far
> > they had gotten with that effort. I'd have to check, but IIRC he'd made
> > /some/ progress. The user "Mr" posts here from time to time .. he's the
> > chap that maintains the Blender->POV exporter. Perhaps he will notice
> > this thread and fill us in on where he stopped. Something I remember
> > about his effort that he was able to find some of the disappeared sites
> > on some archive site ... waybackmachine or something like that. At any
> > rate I can create accounts, but would have to classify that as low
> > priority. Since I'm not someone who turns done help I /might/ be able to
> > get to it later next week. Still interested?
>
> Yes, there will be other evenings with long time renderings. No need to hurry...
>
> I looked through the discussion pages and it seems that the user "Maurice" has
> worked through the "Animation Utilities", "Image and Texture Resources",
> "Magazines, Lists, and FAQs" and "Programs". At "Resources" he left an entry to
> start there next time. This was 11. December 2011. All other discussion pages
> are empty.
>
> Ah, while writing this response, Mr (aka Maurice) gave an answer and confirmed
> the findings above. Seems I have to learn more about the time machines. In the
> past I found only two lost resources at such machines by simply googling for
> them. But I looked only for ones I was really interested in. There are some
> details in Maurice's "directives" I didn't comprehend - may be lost to
> translation and the reason why it took so long to answer - and I still need an
> account at the POV-Wiki.
>
> I propose to communicate in private about both issues. My email is
> mi-friedrichs317t-online.de. Please replace the 317 by @. Today I will withdraw
> into RL but will answer tomorrow.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael

I considered your answers a while and decided to withdraw from my offer to help
here. I hope, we are a community here and no one has to give "directives" as mr
tried.

Best regards,
Michael


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