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28 Jul 2024 20:25:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My ugly little flame...  
From: Bob
Date: 14 Jun 1999 01:13:23
Message: <37648F4D.C3D3B00@aol.com>
Netscape didn't even give me a clue that this had been encoded, just showed me a all
text message. Hmmm, then again there was a horizontal rule bar like in web pages.
Guess
that was the clue.
The important factor is that no "Attachment" whatsoever should be done here I suppose,
and all so-called "text.scene-files" would be only written into a message post
directly
or, as has been said, cut&pasted in. I can understand the confusion however since a
singular pov file for example is just a text alone and if two or more files are zipped
and posted it constitutes a "binary" file belonging obviously at the twin group
p.b.s-f.
Except I can easily see how someone would even then think of that as a set of "text"
files and would be containing no binaries such as images, etc.
Please see the attached diagram which flowcharts this out in a more understandable
way.

[binary file]

Just kidding!

And if you have read down to here: this is the first I've seen the 'groups' and
'light_group' keywords. Guess I need to read something huh? And btw, those
'confidence',
'variance' and 'ratio' numbers are probably the most extreme decimals I've come
across.
I have never found any differences myself whether they be 0.9 or 0.99999999999999 for
confidence, and 0.1 or 0.000000000001 for variance. The ratio one is another story, a
spotlight in media can get pretty ragged if 'ratio' is not set right (default okay I
guess).


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