Ken, the RTFM comment was of course made as a jest. Nobody can give you
creativity and practicing is unavoidable. But what I said was that you _can_ go
beyond the newbie stage using nothing but the manual as the basis. 
I still maintain that RTFM _is_ correct. It just means that you're refusing to
share your experience and forcing the asker to find the answer the same way you
did. It's unfriendly and inefficient, but still...
Anyway, let's drop this. I know what reputation I'll earn by RTFM-ing newbies
(and it won't be that of an advanced user)

Margus

Ken wrote:
> 
> While the Povray docs are the best I have ever seen there is simply no way
> to learn how to be creative by simply reading them. That takes experience
> and answering questions in .general takes more that "book" read knowlege to
> be able to field all of the questions posted there.
> 
> That's strike two !
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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