OK,

    As the person who seems to have kicked all this off by asking what I
thought was a relatively simple question (which the responses have shown it
was) I thought I would throw my 2c back into the mill.

    If I had known of the existence of the VFAQ then I wouldn't have asked
the question... I would have gone there instead, but I didn't so I did (does
that make sense to anyone?).  So I think really the problem is that the
existence of the VFAQ is not as widely known as it should be, especially to
people like me who are new to the newsgroup.

    There....

    Neil.

P.S. Thanks to those who responded with thoughts and ideas... although I
haven't got back to that project yet, I can see that it'll help a lot.
Nieminen Mika wrote in message <369e3964.0@news.povray.org>...
>In povray.newusers Johannes Hubert <jhu### [at] algonetse> wrote:
>: BUT: With creating the VFAQ you simply create a voluntary service
maintained
>: by yourself, which may or may not be used by other people, at *their*
>: discretion - not yours! The mere existance of the VFAQ does in no way
compel
>: people to *use* it - of course they should (if they know about it), but
if
>: they don't, it's their problem.
>
>  You understood me wrong. I wasn't asking people to use the VFAQ. I wasn't
>saying that "you contributed? you should use it as well!".
>  I was just wondering _why_ people aren't using it.
>
>  So my message was not this: "Hey, nobody is using the VFAQ. Please, use
it."
>but instead: "I wonder why nobody is using the VFAQ although it got a good
>feedback".
>
>: Quite frankly: I don't have the time to study the VFAQ, so I don't
>: know which questions are answered in it, so I can't point people to it
>: either...
>
>  But you have time to answer the same questions again and again?
>
>: It is only the requlars that read the same question for the 100th time
who
>: get annoyed, while the poster is not even aware of what he is doing.
>
>  The point in the VFAQ was not avoiding the annoyance of seeing the same
>questions and answers many times. Its goal is to minimize your typing work
>and valuable time. Instead of having to type a 10-20 lines answer, you
>can answer with a couple of lines (one of which is copypasted from the
>browser).
>
>: Replying to such an "innocent" frequently-recurring posting in a way that
>: berates or scoldes the asker is not the way. Simply point him to the FAQ
or
>: ignore him. No more. It is not really friendly to give a new member of a
>: newsgroup a welcome of the sort that he feels stupid and "newbie" right
>: away, nor is it the best way to introduce yourself (as a regular he will
>: probably "meet" later again) to him.
>
>  I'm sorry if I have offended someone with a thing like this.
>
>: Now, that said, I grant you that you probably had the best intentions of
>: helping the original poster, and I also know that you post frequently and
>: helpfully, so please don't see my comments to your replies like I would
try
>: to imply that you are a rude, unhelpful, generally annyoing person - no
at
>: all!
>
>  I know, although sometimes I feel like that (ie. a rude person).
>
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