In article <417ac708$3@news.povray.org> , "Jeremy M. Praay" 
<sla### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> "Time-trial" comes to my mind.  You do the best that you can.  You hope for
> the best.  You prepare for the worst.  But you never know how well you
> compare until it's all over.  Not all time-trials work that way, but the
> analogy works (for me anyway).

Yes, and the IRTC makes this easier as it allows discussion of works in
progress.  As such, to ease the rule that images may not be discussed is
certainly something we are considering.  Of course, we do not take changing
the rules lightly at all and consequently to decide to change this one is a
very difficult decision.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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