Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric-A wrote:
> > Stupid question,,, what is this forum for?
>
> Lets look at the name:
>
> povray.binaries.images
>
> My first guess would be ... images rendered by POVRay.
>
>
> --
> ~Mike

This isn't necessarily a stupid question, particularly for those using the
web-based newsgroup (and especially the younger crowd) who may not be familiar
with old-style newsgroups and their naming policies.

Typically binaries newsgroups are for posts with attached (or old-style in-line
embedded) files.  In this case it would be an image file (.bmp, .png, .jpg,
etc, preferably .jpg for size).

You may also note that, for example, scene-files has two groups:
povray.binaries.scene-files
povray.text.scene-files

the binaries NG would imply and attached file (.zip, .pov, .inc, etc), whereas
for the text NG, the scene file is just included in the post text.

-tgq

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