P3D Re: list fragmentation

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:20 PM -0700 on 3/26/98, Michael Watters wrote:


|Announcing the new crop of Photo-3D breakoff groups!!!
|
|Z3D - Zelot 3D
|   This group is for threads about how wonderful the Realist camera is,
|how it was the
|pinnacle of the camera-makers art and how to go door-to-door convincing people
|to convert to "Realist-ism".

Actually, I'd think "R3D"...

The general concensus seems to be to maintain the list as a single entity
(or at least not to split off any further lists). However, there also does
clearly need to exist a forum separate from the main list for heavily
technical
computer issues as they deal with tru3d  - what I'm being inclined towards
at the moment is the creation of a D3D but with a limited charter that
disussions there will be oriented towards VERY specific computer related
questions (such as partioning hds, what filters to use in Photoshop, etc),
whereas *general* computer related 3d topics would remain on p3d.

It's not clear how this would be enforced though (outside of having a
watchful d3d moderator who could direct stuff *back* to p3d if it generalizes -
which is somewhat the reverse of what most moderators do).

Hopefully tomorrow after classes are over for the week I can get something
going on resolving the issue.

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   11:12 PM Thursday, March 26, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
 keeper of the Photo-3d and Overland-Trails
mailing lists and the USA GPS Waypoint server



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