A valid point, and well made.

I must confess to performing the heinous action described by Ken,
posting source as a reply to a reply to an image of mine.

The problem, I guess, is that someone sees an image, says "Hey, that's
nice. Can I have the source?" And of course we say "Sure! Here it is,
enjoy!" being such nice, well balanced individuals that we are, thrilled
that someone thinks our code is worth seeing, eager to spread good will
and intellectual understanding ( ... etc, etc ... ;-).

So maybe now that the point has been brought up we can remember to pause
before hitting the send key, to think whether it should be going to that
particular news group or whether a quick "Sure! I'll post it to ..."
would be a better reply.

Well, that's enough filosifising from me for this week :-)

	Mike Andrews.

Ken wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>   I went looking for a macro today that I saw posted about three weeks
> ago. Which one is unimportant to his message. I looked in the scene
> files and the utilities groups and could not find it. I then figured,
> ok, it might have been in the .general group. Nope no way ! I could not
> find it anywhere. Out of desperation I started going through this group
> and after 25 min spent waiting for images to load and reading through
> a ton of postings and their related replies I finally found it.
> 
>   Why do I bother to bring my problem to your attention ?
> 
>   That is easy to answer !
> 
>   If the macro had been posted to the correct group it would have been
> easier to find. I admit that I am just as guilty as the next person
> about posting my Pov script in here as the next person but we really
> should act as group and start putting this kind of material where it
> belongs and not in this group. There are some invaluable resources
> being wasted because of the location they are posted to are not where
> one would expect to find it. Further more when posted in here it is
> almost without fail buried one or two levels deep with no identifier
> in the heading to say that the source is there for those who want it.
> 
>   So how about it people. Let stop supplying the source for our scenes
> files here and take it to the scene files group where it belongs. It
> would certainly help me and it just might help you sometime in the
> future as well. It would also make it easier for someone at a later
> time to compile a list of available material so people don't have
> toi reinvent the wheel each time a question is asked about how do
> I do this or that. I don't know of anyone that would make such a list
> and you probably don't either but you never know for sure do you.
> 
>   Thank you for taking the time to read this and I appreciate those
> who will take it to heart this minor little change in behaviour that
> I am asking for. I think it is a fair and reasonable request to make
> and it is in keeping with the idea of having seperate groups for the
> content they contain.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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