POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : FAQ for people who are compiling POV-Ray : Re: FAQ for people who are compiling POV-Ray Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:22:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: FAQ for people who are compiling POV-Ray  
From: Ken
Date: 6 Apr 1999 13:38:27
Message: <370A374D.B47BABB6@pacbell.net>
Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:23:36 +0000, Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
> >One thing that will slow down the research for the FAQ is the lack of an
> >extensive archive of these news.povray.org newsgroups - can't use
> >dejanews.org!  If there exists an archive, I don't know where it is.
> 
> news.povray.org is an extensive archive.  When I retreive all articles
> for povray.programming, the first articles in the list (sorted by date)
> are dated in December 1997.  (There are two articles with earlier dates,
> but at least one of them is an error.)  povray.general goes back to
> November 1997.

I does leave me to wonder how much top end they have available right now.
The images group has over 4000 messages now and probably 10 - 15 % of those
are image attachments. That has to be adding up quickly as the popularity
of this site is definatly growing with time. It was much quieter when I first
found the Pov groups.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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