********************************************************************************* ** ** ** The NewsStats scrip was written by S J Lenehan ** ** ** ** emal: steve@zeropps.uklinux.net ** ** ** ** web page: http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net ** ** ** ********************************************************************************* Date of test: Wed 12 Feb 2003 Base directory of the spool: /var/spool/slrnpull/ Total number of groups in the spool: 21 Will not check groups with less posts than this: 10 Number of groups that will be checked: 21 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group List Approximate Message Count --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- povray.off-topic 60,115 povray.binaries.images 32,398 povray.general 20,669 povray.beta-test 6,689 povray.unofficial.patches 4,084 povray.advanced-users 4,054 povray.newusers 3,508 povray.programming 2,477 povray.unix 1,809 povray.binaries.utilities 1,174 irtc.stills 1,100 povray.binaries.scene-files 1,086 povray.text.scene-files 1,077 povray.animations 953 povray.international 657 povray.text.tutorials 423 irtc.general 221 povray.binaries.tutorials 161 povray.international.binaries 100 povray.bugreports 19 povray.announce.frequently-asked-que 12 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.off-topic Number of messages examined: 58,528 Total number of different senders in this group: 481 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Bill DeWitt 5,940 2 Ian Burgmyer 5,089 3 Tom Melly 2,848 4 Ken 2,623 5 Warp 2,541 6 Rick [Kitty5] 1,645 7 Steve 1,645 8 Lance Birch - 1,368 9 Ron Parker 1,359 10 25ct 1,347 11 Ben Chambers 1,326 12 Chris Huff 1,256 13 Peter Popov 1,113 14 Fabien Mosen 1,111 15 Matt Giwer 1,019 16 David Fontaine 873 17 Timothy R. Cook 846 18 Tony[B] 834 19 Shay 740 20 Francois Labreque 722 21 Greg M. Johnson 706 22 Jamie Davison 643 23 Brendan Ryan 614 24 John VanSickle 595 25 Dearmad 556 26 IMBJR 508 27 Apache 498 28 Alan Kong 470 29 Rune 453 30 Nekar Xenos 452 31 Mark Wagner 405 32 Bob Hughes 402 33 Josh English 389 34 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 380 35 Jan Walzer 375 36 Scott Hill 373 37 Hookflash 356 38 Thomas Lake 355 39 Gilles Tran 349 40 Erkki Søndergaard 347 41 Gail Shaw 332 42 Vahur Krouverk 322 43 317 44 Phil Clute 315 45 ingo 268 46 Christoph Hormann 260 47 Deaken 254 48 Harold Baize 252 49 Remco de Korte 248 50 Zeger Knaepen 213 51 Margus Ramst 211 52 Patrick Elliott 201 53 JRG 201 54 Jon A. Cruz 200 55 Jim Charter 198 56 Y 185 57 Thorsten Froehlich 179 58 Anders K. 179 59 Pandora 175 60 Sander 169 61 Simon de Vet 156 62 James Taylor 152 63 Grey Knight 146 64 Alan Holding 144 65 Ace 136 66 David F. 131 67 GrimDude 128 68 Mick Hazelgrove 126 69 Arthur Flint 126 70 Ruy 125 71 Slime 119 72 Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen 117 73 Tim Nikias 115 74 Kari Kivisalo 111 75 Tor Olav Kristensen 108 76 Jerry 104 77 Artis 101 78 Daniel Matthews 98 79 Philippe Lhoste 95 80 Kevin R. 95 81 PoD 95 82 C.J. - POV User 93 83 Leroy Whetstone 93 84 Peder Skyt 92 85 fabien 92 86 MikeH 91 87 TinCanMan 88 88 Grimbert 85 89 Tom Galvin tom[at]imp.org 84 90 Peter Warren 84 91 Mr. Art 82 92 Florian Pesth 81 93 Chris Cason 81 94 DJ Wiza 78 95 Yooper 78 96 Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto 76 97 Brian Elliott 75 98 Ian Witham 74 99 Philippe Debar 71 100 Doctor John 71 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.off-topic Number of messages examined: 58,528 Total number of different subjects in this group: 4,683 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Pray for our world 426 2 fat32 v NTFS 421 3 Religion: Good or Bad? 377 4 Mac Newsreaders 305 5 Electors 302 6 Wow..... this is cool! 298 7 My very first e-mail virus! 294 8 Evolution...? 281 9 Operating Systems 241 10 You have yet to refute these. [WAS: Trig/C 218 11 Working on a new song... 214 12 Virus Alert 206 13 Do not read this message. 201 14 Oh, dear. 201 15 Binary vs metric 195 16 The IMBJR thing. 183 17 Advice for programming languages? 179 18 An appeal... 178 19 Falwell Blames Attacks on Abortionists, Ga 173 20 More Code Red... 172 21 Quiz: whither Osama? 169 22 Command line options 168 23 Fish are stupid 162 24 Disaster for Bush 152 25 Conundrum and a short summary 151 26 Silly Question...... 146 27 Christmas Presents 139 28 Burgular 138 29 I hate my country... do you? 134 30 C Programming 134 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.off-topic Number of messages examined: 58,528 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 8,576 14.65% Tuesday 9,952 17.00% Wednesday 9,027 15.42% Thursday 8,514 14.55% Friday 8,901 15.21% Saturday 6,774 11.57% Sunday 6,747 11.53% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.off-topic Number of messages examined: 58,528 Number of months included: 29 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 1,593 53.10 2.72% October 2,538 81.87 4.34% November 3,133 104.43 5.35% December 2,206 71.16 3.77% - * - 2001 - * - February 728 26.00 1.24% March 1,415 45.65 2.42% April 961 32.03 1.64% May 1,613 52.03 2.76% June 1,741 58.03 2.97% July 1,697 54.74 2.90% August 2,557 82.48 4.37% September 2,145 71.50 3.66% October 1,732 55.87 2.96% November 1,903 63.43 3.25% December 3,084 99.48 5.27% - * - 2002 - * - January 3,423 110.42 5.85% February 2,523 90.11 4.31% March 2,578 83.16 4.40% April 2,417 80.57 4.13% May 2,357 76.03 4.03% June 2,344 78.13 4.00% July 2,110 68.06 3.61% August 1,710 55.16 2.92% September 1,685 56.17 2.88% October 2,314 74.65 3.95% November 1,630 54.33 2.78% December 1,832 59.10 3.13% - * - 2003 - * - January 1,678 54.13 2.87% February 844 70.33 1.44% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.binaries.images Number of messages examined: 32,054 Total number of different senders in this group: 932 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Christoph Hormann 1,173 2 David Fontaine 1,078 3 Steve 839 4 Chris Huff 636 5 Rick [Kitty5] 573 6 Bob Hughes 560 7 Tony[B] 557 8 Shay 542 9 Hugo 490 10 JRG 481 11 Tor Olav Kristensen 409 12 Tom Melly 393 13 Bill DeWitt 382 14 Tim Nikias 381 15 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 374 16 Timothy R. Cook 373 17 Rune 332 18 Slime 328 19 Thomas Lake 302 20 Nekar Xenos 288 21 Xplo Eristotle 282 22 Gail Shaw 279 23 25ct 277 24 Zeger Knaepen 270 25 Mick Hazelgrove 265 26 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 261 27 Peter Popov 256 28 Apache 252 29 Txemi Jendrix 248 30 Greg M. Johnson 240 31 Jaime Vives Piqueres 237 32 GrimDude 233 33 Francois Labreque 229 34 Ken 218 35 Kari Kivisalo 217 36 Sander 216 37 Warp 214 38 Tek 209 39 Mahalis 207 40 Alf Peake 205 41 Batronyx 197 42 Jim Charter 189 43 Jamie Davison 186 44 Jan Walzer 186 45 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj 183 46 Ross Litscher 183 47 Geoff Wedig 178 48 MikeH 177 49 Kevin Ellis 176 50 Gilles Tran 172 51 Sir Charles W. Shults III 171 52 ingo 170 53 Jürgen Scharfy 159 54 Marc Jacquier 154 55 Dave Blandston 148 56 Anton Sherwood 146 57 Samuel Benge 141 58 Aaron Gillies 133 59 Andrew Coppin 130 60 Josh English 129 61 Andy Cocker 129 62 Ive 127 63 IMBJR 125 64 Bryan Valencia 122 65 TinCanMan 122 66 H.E. Day 122 67 Andrew Cocker 121 68 Dan Johnson 115 69 Robert J Becraft 113 70 Patrick Dugan 113 71 Skip Talbot 113 72 Corey Woodworth 109 73 Peter Hertel 108 74 JPGargoyle 107 75 Remco de Korte 105 76 gemelli david 105 77 Ib Rasmussen 103 78 Matt Giwer 102 79 Ron Parker 102 80 Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto 96 81 Yadgar 95 82 Mark Wagner 94 83 Margus Ramst 93 84 Kevin Loney 91 85 Dearmad 91 86 Fabien Mosen 89 87 Ruy 89 88 Flaming Monarch 87 89 marabou 86 90 Norbert Kern 85 91 John VanSickle 82 92 Simon Lemieux 82 93 Jari Juslin 82 94 Harold Baize 81 95 Alan Holding 79 96 Coridon Henshaw 77 97 yooper 77 98 Kzerphii Toomk 76 99 Jim Kress 75 100 Pete 75 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.binaries.images Number of messages examined: 32,054 Total number of different subjects in this group: 4,678 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 The dark side of the trees (121 kbu) 63 2 Radiosity - interior scene test (90 kbu) 62 3 Internet Explorer iconny-thingie! 52 4 And now for something completely different 49 5 For those who oppose the death penalty 46 6 Facing the inevitable - Facing-the-inevita 45 7 I found my bottle of mercury! 45 8 Clay Piranha WIP1 (34kbbu) 45 9 Another WIP 43 10 Solar Sail 42 11 Clouds 42 12 People 42 13 Glass of water 41 14 Pretty photons 41 15 More glow stuff - attached files (1/1) 40 16 Big menger sponge (137k) 40 17 IRTC-WIP4 (246 kb) 40 18 Narnia V3 WIP 40 19 The Fortress of Torganswall (160 kb) 39 20 2nd WIP, maybe IRTC entry (180k) 36 21 pre . . . Fib Beads 36 22 Pepper. 36 23 Sigh of relief, the Beach is finished (90k 35 24 Gerbera - Ninth Composition 35 25 yet another mengersponge... 35 26 IRTC (Frozen Moment) WIP 1 35 27 Clothray cloth simulation patch.. 34 28 wip needs help 34 29 Cobra Mk III 34 30 A different approach to blurred reflection 33 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.binaries.images Number of messages examined: 32,054 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 5,045 15.74% Tuesday 4,974 15.52% Wednesday 4,440 13.85% Thursday 4,648 14.50% Friday 4,777 14.90% Saturday 3,959 12.35% Sunday 4,210 13.13% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.binaries.images Number of messages examined: 32,054 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 1,786 59.53 5.57% October 1,286 41.48 4.01% November 1,291 43.03 4.03% December 1,184 38.19 3.69% - * - 2001 - * - January 1,089 35.13 3.40% February 932 33.29 2.91% March 1,432 46.19 4.47% April 1,273 42.43 3.97% May 962 31.03 3.00% June 736 24.53 2.30% July 712 22.97 2.22% August 818 26.39 2.55% September 912 30.40 2.85% October 1,324 42.71 4.13% November 1,073 35.77 3.35% December 824 26.58 2.57% - * - 2002 - * - January 1,361 43.90 4.25% February 1,079 38.54 3.37% March 1,535 49.52 4.79% April 1,340 44.67 4.18% May 1,086 35.03 3.39% June 874 29.13 2.73% July 1,006 32.45 3.14% August 1,099 35.45 3.43% September 1,067 35.57 3.33% October 962 31.03 3.00% November 890 29.67 2.78% December 877 28.29 2.74% - * - 2003 - * - January 940 30.32 2.93% February 303 25.25 0.95% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.general Number of messages examined: 20,201 Total number of different senders in this group: 958 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Warp 1,412 2 Chris Huff 887 3 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 727 4 Thorsten Froehlich 640 5 Christoph Hormann 594 6 Tom Melly 554 7 Ken 538 8 Ron Parker 535 9 Rune 493 10 Greg M. Johnson 442 11 Bob Hughes 361 12 Bill DeWitt 276 13 Timothy R. Cook 271 14 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj 263 15 Peter Popov 251 16 Slime 227 17 David Fontaine 223 18 Tony[B] 187 19 MikeH 183 20 Nekar Xenos 178 21 Tim Nikias 178 22 ingo 177 23 Rick [Kitty5] 176 24 Gilles Tran 173 25 Hugo 168 26 Ben Chambers 164 27 Jan Walzer 161 28 Shay 152 29 John VanSickle 145 30 Kari Kivisalo 131 31 Steve 130 32 JRG 129 33 Mark Wagner 124 34 Chris Cason 123 35 Xplo Eristotle 120 36 Jamie Davison 117 37 Francois Labreque 115 38 Micha Riser 115 39 Mahalis 115 40 Tor Olav Kristensen 112 41 Alan Kong 109 42 TinCanMan 101 43 25ct 99 44 Harold Baize 95 45 Fabien Mosen 90 46 Dave Dunn 87 47 Gail Shaw 85 48 Zeger Knaepen 84 49 Adrien Beau 74 50 Jaime Vives Piqueres 73 51 Margus Ramst 71 52 Apache 70 53 Sir Charles W. Shults III 69 54 Josh English 69 55 Peter J. Holzer 68 56 Mick Hazelgrove 67 57 Grey Knight 63 58 Matt Giwer 63 59 Trevor Quayle 62 60 Andy Cocker 62 61 Patrick Dugan 60 62 Alf Peake 60 63 Lutz-Peter Hooge 59 64 Andrew Cocker 59 65 Andrew 59 66 Corey Woodworth 58 67 Geoff Wedig 57 68 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 56 69 Mitchell Waite 55 70 Jim Kress 52 71 Grimbert 52 72 James Taylor 51 73 Tom A. 51 74 Simon Adameit 50 75 Jon A. Cruz 50 76 Philippe Lhoste 48 77 Felix Wiemann 48 78 GrimDude 48 79 Daniel Matthews 47 80 MR 45 81 Vahur Krouverk 44 82 Jürgen Scharfy 43 83 Chris Colefax 43 84 s1631001 43 85 Brendan Ryan 42 86 Jason Scott 40 87 Scott Hill 40 88 Batronyx 40 89 Ruy 40 90 Ib Rasmussen 38 91 David Buck 38 92 Mr. Art 38 93 KalleK 38 94 Phil Clute 37 95 Eitan Tal 37 96 Philippe Debar 36 97 Dearmad 36 98 Pandora 36 99 C.J. - POV User 34 100 Dawn McKnight 34 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.general Number of messages examined: 20,201 Total number of different subjects in this group: 2,689 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 povQ&T (aka. povVFAQ) new look 179 2 New POV-Ray webpage 148 3 Mega-Pov or V3.5? 108 4 4.0 Feature discussion 85 5 More methods? was anti-aliasing 80 6 What happened to off-topic? 79 7 Hi from DKBTrace author 79 8 Request: new simple pattern 77 9 Radiosity champions, here's something for 76 10 My particle system is released 68 11 Povray wishlist 67 12 POV to GIF? 65 13 About THAT idea... 61 14 Survey. 61 15 zRCube (POV Clone) 60 16 looking for antialiasing critical scenes 59 17 How much will PoVRay cost? 57 18 Pixar patent infringement involves anti-al 52 19 POV-Ray v3.5 now available 52 20 POV-Ray keychain 52 21 Very quick/small survey, please fill! 50 22 Disc which is not flat 49 23 Praise POV-Ray 3.5 ! 49 24 A question. 49 25 POV Photons 49 26 Overlaping objects with different ior valu 48 27 unexpected rotation result 48 28 Isn't it time for a new pov benchmark? 47 29 The biggest POV-users reunion ever ! 47 30 Article: Povray's Arealights - Cheap Hack 46 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.general Number of messages examined: 20,201 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 2,912 14.42% Tuesday 3,340 16.53% Wednesday 3,117 15.43% Thursday 3,375 16.71% Friday 3,146 15.57% Saturday 2,019 9.99% Sunday 2,278 11.28% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.general Number of messages examined: 20,201 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 762 25.40 3.77% October 569 18.35 2.82% November 782 26.07 3.87% December 511 16.48 2.53% - * - 2001 - * - January 1,062 34.26 5.26% February 496 17.71 2.46% March 478 15.42 2.37% April 331 11.03 1.64% May 400 12.90 1.98% June 420 14.00 2.08% July 250 8.06 1.24% August 606 19.55 3.00% September 711 23.70 3.52% October 1,012 32.65 5.01% November 1,007 33.57 4.98% December 739 23.84 3.66% - * - 2002 - * - January 1,137 36.68 5.63% February 919 32.82 4.55% March 966 31.16 4.78% April 743 24.77 3.68% May 513 16.55 2.54% June 324 10.80 1.60% July 1,039 33.52 5.14% August 1,073 34.61 5.31% September 967 32.23 4.79% October 713 23.00 3.53% November 514 17.13 2.54% December 387 12.48 1.92% - * - 2003 - * - January 558 18.00 2.76% February 198 16.50 0.98% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.beta-test Number of messages examined: 6,585 Total number of different senders in this group: 365 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Thorsten Froehlich 730 2 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 526 3 Warp 448 4 Rune 288 5 Christoph Hormann 224 6 ingo 224 7 Bob Hughes 206 8 MikeH 202 9 Ron Parker 192 10 Chris Cason 158 11 Anders K. 136 12 Slime 117 13 Felix Wiemann 110 14 Ken 110 15 Tom Melly 88 16 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 85 17 Coridon Henshaw 76 18 JRG 74 19 Trevor Quayle 60 20 Peter Popov 60 21 Adrien Beau 59 22 Gilles Tran 57 23 Tom Stone 57 24 Nathan Kopp 56 25 Tim Nikias 56 26 Chris Huff 54 27 Jan Walzer 50 28 Mark Wagner 46 29 Redbeard \MDJohnson\ 45 30 Tor Olav Kristensen 38 31 Francois Labreque 38 32 Grimbert 37 33 KalleK 37 34 Steve 37 35 Greg M. Johnson 36 36 Tony[B] 33 37 R. Suzuki 31 38 Gleb 31 39 Kari Kivisalo 30 40 Fabien Mosen 30 41 Glen Berry 29 42 Vampyrium 29 43 Philippe Debar 28 44 N Shomber 28 45 Alan Kong 27 46 Ari-Matti Leppanen 25 47 Robert Chaffe 25 48 Jon A. Cruz 25 49 Bonsai 23 50 Lutz-Peter Hooge 22 51 Mark Gordon 22 52 David Wallace 21 53 Batronyx 21 54 Elias Pschernig 20 55 Michael Andrews 20 56 Ben Chambers 20 57 TinCanMan 20 58 Hugo 20 59 Thorsten 19 60 Rick [Kitty5] 18 61 Bill DeWitt 17 62 Thomas Lake 17 63 Alf Peake 16 64 Jaime Vives Piqueres 15 65 Jonathan Wooldridge 15 66 Mark Weyer 15 67 Gail Shaw 15 68 Patrick Dugan 14 69 Josh English 14 70 Erkki Søndergaard 13 71 Gergely Vandor 13 72 John VanSickle 13 73 Michael Goldshteyn 12 74 Christian Walther 12 75 Dave Dunn 12 76 jmvdvalk 12 77 Thomas 12 78 nospam 12 79 Chris Becker 11 80 Kevin Ellis 11 81 Thierry B. 11 82 Apache 11 83 John David Haiducek 10 84 Mick Hazelgrove 10 85 Dennis Milller 10 86 Simon Adameit 10 87 Roy Schulz 10 88 Redbeard 10 89 Martial 10 90 Y 10 91 Nikodemus Siivola 9 92 andrel linnenbank 9 93 Jari Juslin 9 94 Jim Kress 9 95 SciBorg 9 96 Dean 9 97 Mael 9 98 Pabs 9 99 QQ 9 100 No name or email address given. 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.beta-test Number of messages examined: 6,585 Total number of different subjects in this group: 1,374 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 (Mac) Mesh question 56 2 Spline inconsistencies 54 3 Known Bugs 14 Jan 2002 43 4 #error bug 40 5 Known Bugs 24 Dec 2001 (beta 9) 37 6 Function image type mirrored vertically 36 7 Functions more than 65535 35 8 Buglist 22 Apr 2002 (RC2) 34 9 Known Bugs - 31 Dec 2001 34 10 Known bugs 1 Nov 2001 32 11 Splash Screen 31 12 Alpha problems: text is not antialiased 30 13 Isosurfaces *much* slower in beta 7? 29 14 png gamma error 28 15 Possible POVWin feature addition 27 16 Filling in T values in splines 27 17 Win install 27 18 while bug ? 27 19 Orthographic support broken 26 20 max_trace_level problem 25 21 Function parameter bug 25 22 Can't undefine defined entry of array 24 23 initial_clock / final_clock behaviour 24 24 Is the "File Open" dialog box missing a fe 23 25 the umpteenth time: removed features :( 23 26 RC4 quick summary of my reports 23 27 wrong report about max_gradient 23 28 a access problem as NT-User 23 29 the lowest pixel getting dimmed 22 30 bug with #declare order 22 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.beta-test Number of messages examined: 6,585 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 1,134 17.22% Tuesday 936 14.21% Wednesday 979 14.87% Thursday 946 14.37% Friday 1,067 16.20% Saturday 775 11.77% Sunday 747 11.34% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.beta-test Number of messages examined: 6,585 Number of months included: 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2001 - * - September 1,473 49.10 22.37% October 1,027 33.13 15.60% November 547 18.23 8.31% December 532 17.16 8.08% - * - 2002 - * - January 785 25.32 11.92% February 444 15.86 6.74% March 425 13.71 6.45% April 455 15.17 6.91% May 508 16.39 7.71% June 316 10.53 4.80% July 72 2.32 1.09% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.unofficial.patches Number of messages examined: 3,906 Total number of different senders in this group: 290 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Chris Huff 417 2 Warp 288 3 Christoph Hormann 244 4 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 176 5 Thorsten Froehlich 153 6 Ron Parker 113 7 Rune 103 8 Tony[B] 100 9 Nathan Kopp 95 10 Tom Melly 94 11 Ken 76 12 Vahur Krouverk 71 13 Bob Hughes 60 14 Greg M. Johnson 56 15 GrimDude 56 16 Geoff Wedig 50 17 Nicolas Calimet 48 18 Gilles Tran 46 19 Apache 41 20 Grimbert 39 21 Mark Wagner 38 22 Peter Popov 37 23 Daniel Jungmann 32 24 Mael 31 25 Pabs 31 26 JRG 31 27 ingo 30 28 Berger 29 29 Disnel 29 30 Le Forgeron 26 31 Andy Cocker 25 32 Rick [Kitty5] 23 33 M. Berger 23 34 John M. Dlugosz 22 35 Nekar Xenos 22 36 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 21 37 Mick Hazelgrove 21 38 David Fontaine 21 39 Paul Blaszczyk 21 40 Andrew Cocker 21 41 smellenbergh 21 42 Peter J. Holzer 20 43 Kari Kivisalo 20 44 Francois Labreque 19 45 Francois Dispot 19 46 Anton Sherwood 19 47 Steve 18 48 Michael Andrews 17 49 Christophe Bouffartigue 16 50 Fabien Mosen 16 51 Patrick Elliott 15 52 Zeger Knaepen 15 53 Glen Berry 15 54 Scott Hill 15 55 Margus Ramst 14 56 Jim Kress 14 57 Micha Riser 13 58 Gail Shaw 13 59 Ryan Constantine 12 60 Dennis Milller 12 61 Patrick Dugan 11 62 Bill DeWitt 11 63 Alan Kong 11 64 Alf Peake 11 65 George Pantazopoulos 10 66 Alessandro Coppo 10 67 ryan constantine 10 68 Jan Walzer 10 69 R. Suzuki 10 70 H.E. Day 10 71 Hugo Asm 10 72 Jaime Vives Piqueres 9 73 Yvo Smellenbergh 9 74 Theo Gottwald * 9 75 Mr. Art 9 76 Jetlag 9 77 Tor Olav Kristensen 8 78 Philippe Debar 8 79 Fabien HENON 8 80 Quadhall 8 81 Alberto 8 82 Thomas 8 83 ceggi 8 84 Lutz-Peter Hooge 7 85 Andreas Kreisig 7 86 Ben Chambers 7 87 Josh English 7 88 Jason Scott 7 89 Y.Tanabe 7 90 David 7 91 Hugo 7 92 Smellenbergh 6 93 Grey Knight 6 94 Jon A. Cruz 6 95 Anders K. 6 96 Ken Cecka 6 97 Pierrick 6 98 Halbert 6 99 Artis 6 100 Kynar 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.unofficial.patches Number of messages examined: 3,906 Total number of different subjects in this group: 525 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 PovRay faster 89 2 Major bug in MegaPOV Plus? 80 3 ANNOUNCE: MegaPOV 1.0 available 66 4 #declares and memory management 50 5 Mesh2 Boning suggestion 46 6 OBJECT IDEA 44 7 name for no interpolation 43 8 Announce: SkyPOV 0.1 41 9 3.6? 40 10 MegaPov 0.6 available for download 37 11 Seems that the tesselation patch died befo 34 12 Tesselation process 34 13 Material{} in mesh2 ? 32 14 Sampling in pov3.5 32 15 New MegaPOV 32 16 megapov bug 30 17 3D!Now 28 18 Announce: MegaPOV v0.7 Ready for download 27 19 radiosity samples: 255x255x255 probably is 27 20 feature request 27 21 Tesselation and mesh data extraction patch 26 22 Bigtime MegaPov 0.7 CRASH! 26 23 POVMan released 26 24 Noisy thoughts 26 25 I don't understand the slope pattern 25 26 Mesh2 uv_vectors problem 25 27 POV 4 philosophy 25 28 More on hair 25 29 Bug in isosurface using pigment function? 24 30 MegaPov is dead. Long live MegaPov+? 24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.unofficial.patches Number of messages examined: 3,906 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 567 14.52% Tuesday 762 19.51% Wednesday 653 16.72% Thursday 577 14.77% Friday 634 16.23% Saturday 310 7.94% Sunday 380 9.73% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.unofficial.patches Number of messages examined: 3,906 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 302 10.07 7.73% October 263 8.48 6.73% November 367 12.23 9.40% December 196 6.32 5.02% - * - 2001 - * - January 390 12.58 9.98% February 263 9.39 6.73% March 258 8.32 6.61% April 117 3.90 3.00% May 220 7.10 5.63% June 150 5.00 3.84% July 104 3.35 2.66% August 111 3.58 2.84% September 109 3.63 2.79% October 101 3.26 2.59% November 26 0.87 0.67% December 17 0.55 0.44% - * - 2002 - * - January 44 1.42 1.13% February 59 2.11 1.51% March 29 0.94 0.74% April 71 2.37 1.82% May 11 0.35 0.28% June 2 0.07 0.05% July 50 1.61 1.28% August 109 3.52 2.79% September 73 2.43 1.87% October 67 2.16 1.72% November 28 0.93 0.72% December 97 3.13 2.48% - * - 2003 - * - January 224 7.23 5.73% February 25 2.08 0.64% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.advanced-users Number of messages examined: 3,902 Total number of different senders in this group: 363 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Warp 329 2 Chris Huff 269 3 Rune 153 4 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 146 5 Christoph Hormann 143 6 Tim Nikias 133 7 Ron Parker 121 8 Peter Popov 89 9 Tor Olav Kristensen 81 10 Thorsten Froehlich 79 11 Jan Walzer 79 12 Slime 79 13 Andrew Coppin 64 14 Ken 63 15 Bob Hughes 61 16 MikeH 52 17 David Fontaine 44 18 Tom Melly 38 19 Rohan Bernett 36 20 ingo 35 21 Greg M. Johnson 34 22 Micha Riser 34 23 Gilles Tran 33 24 Kari Kivisalo 31 25 Margus Ramst 31 26 Dan Johnson 29 27 Chris Colefax 28 28 Josh English 28 29 Lutz-Peter Hooge 27 30 Hugo 27 31 JRG 27 32 Francois Labreque 25 33 Christopher Johnson 24 34 John VanSickle 24 35 Jürgen Scharfy 24 36 Mark Wagner 22 37 David Vincent-Jones 21 38 David Wallace 21 39 _Light_Beam_ 21 40 Michael Andrews 20 41 Fidel viegas 19 42 normdoering 19 43 Apache 19 44 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj 17 45 Shay 17 46 Alf Peake 16 47 Daniel Matthews 14 48 Dennis Miller 14 49 Simon Adameit 14 50 Chris Becker 14 51 TinCanMan 14 52 Tek 14 53 Jaime Vives Piqueres 13 54 Simon Lemieux 13 55 Adam Gibbons 13 56 Defective 13 57 Gail Shaw 13 58 Mick Hazelgrove 12 59 Geoff Wedig 12 60 Grimbert 12 61 J. Diehl 12 62 Pabs 12 63 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 11 64 Alessandro Coppo 11 65 John M. Dlugosz 11 66 Philippe Debar 11 67 Remco Poelstra 11 68 Grey Knight 11 69 Mark Weyer 11 70 Tony[B] 11 71 RAY 11 72 Johannes Dahlstrom 10 73 Leroy Whetstone 10 74 Andrew Cocker 10 75 Herman Serras 10 76 Ben Birdsey 10 77 Jim Kress 10 78 hughes b 10 79 Pyry 10 80 GrndAdmThrawn 9 81 Wanderer On The Road 8 82 Paul Daniel Jones 8 83 Philippe Lhoste 8 84 Vahur Krouverk 8 85 John Pallett 8 86 Le Forgeron 8 87 Rob Verweij 8 88 Scott Moore 8 89 Paul Jones 8 90 Pandora 8 91 Reusser 8 92 Lars 8 93 Thomas van der Veen 7 94 Nikodemus Siivola 7 95 Thomas Willhalm 7 96 Stephen McAvoy 7 97 Markus Becker 7 98 Rick Gutleber 7 99 Rick [Kitty5] 7 100 Doctor John 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.advanced-users Number of messages examined: 3,902 Total number of different subjects in this group: 563 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 function optimization question 65 2 The Harcore Povrayer Test 50 3 Grid artifact in f_noise3d isosurface 49 4 Radiosity flouroescent lighting troubles 46 5 milky glass problem 42 6 Random number generator needed ! 41 7 union of unions 39 8 Truck and trailer 35 9 Waterdrops on Glass... How? 32 10 How does one test to see if a triangle's v 30 11 collision detection 30 12 I really really want n-sided bezier patche 28 13 Volume-preserving blob 28 14 Array irritation. 27 15 Improved test 27 16 Lens flares without third party addons 26 17 Inverse Square Law 26 18 Random variation 26 19 Tetrahedron Macro that uses Prism primativ 24 20 Palm trees from primatives 24 21 Matrix question 24 22 wicker basket 24 23 No reflection for a specific object? 23 24 Something more theoretical.... 23 25 should be normal weighted ? 23 26 Air resistance 23 27 Polygon planarity tolerance 22 28 Off Topic: HP-48 emulator 22 29 Keeping objects spaced enough using Array? 21 30 Heightfield problem 21 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.advanced-users Number of messages examined: 3,902 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 538 13.79% Tuesday 671 17.20% Wednesday 541 13.86% Thursday 582 14.92% Friday 653 16.74% Saturday 422 10.81% Sunday 491 12.58% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.advanced-users Number of messages examined: 3,902 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 111 3.70 2.84% October 122 3.94 3.13% November 137 4.57 3.51% December 149 4.81 3.82% - * - 2001 - * - January 192 6.19 4.92% February 166 5.93 4.25% March 92 2.97 2.36% April 39 1.30 1.00% May 68 2.19 1.74% June 86 2.87 2.20% July 22 0.71 0.56% August 39 1.26 1.00% September 26 0.87 0.67% October 52 1.68 1.33% November 124 4.13 3.18% December 103 3.32 2.64% - * - 2002 - * - January 133 4.29 3.41% February 255 9.11 6.54% March 252 8.13 6.46% April 158 5.27 4.05% May 90 2.90 2.31% June 109 3.63 2.79% July 136 4.39 3.49% August 228 7.35 5.84% September 272 9.07 6.97% October 220 7.10 5.64% November 162 5.40 4.15% December 151 4.87 3.87% - * - 2003 - * - January 165 5.32 4.23% February 39 3.25 1.00% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.newusers Number of messages examined: 3,454 Total number of different senders in this group: 471 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Warp 271 2 Chris Huff 176 3 Bob Hughes 156 4 Ken 140 5 Tom Melly 126 6 Christoph Hormann 92 7 Ron Parker 66 8 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 63 9 Simon Lemieux 52 10 Steve 49 11 Wade 46 12 Peter Popov 44 13 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 40 14 Thorsten Froehlich 40 15 Margus Ramst 39 16 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj 34 17 ingo 34 18 MikeH 33 19 John VanSickle 31 20 Elias Pschernig 29 21 Trevor Quayle 29 22 Mark M. Wilson 27 23 Gilles Tran 27 24 TinCanMan 27 25 MR 27 26 Kaveh 26 27 Nekar Xenos 24 28 marabou 24 29 Robert 24 30 Dawn McKnight 23 31 Kari Kivisalo 23 32 Tim Nikias 23 33 Mark Hanford 22 34 hughes b 22 35 KalleK 22 36 Jong 22 37 JRG 22 38 Josh English 21 39 Mick Hazelgrove 20 40 Hershel Robinson 19 41 David Fontaine 19 42 Florian Pesth 19 43 LibraryMan 19 44 Dennis Miller 18 45 Les Patterson 17 46 krus 17 47 Francois Labreque 16 48 Micha Riser 16 49 Rune 16 50 Lothar Esser 15 51 The \D\ 15 52 Greg M. Johnson 14 53 Chris Colefax 14 54 Norbert Kern 14 55 Rob Brown-Bayliss 13 56 Renato Oliveira 13 57 Justin Smith 13 58 Phil Clute 13 59 Tor Olav Kristensen 12 60 Johannes Dahlstrom 12 61 J Tellings 12 62 Alan Kong 12 63 ZSpider 12 64 Rick [Kitty5] 11 65 Ross Litscher 11 66 yooper 11 67 Jason Jong 10 68 jfmiller 10 69 Jaime Vives Piqueres 9 70 Michael DiDonato 9 71 Philippe Lhoste 9 72 Tony LaVigne 9 73 Apache 9 74 Deaken 9 75 David 9 76 ulli 9 77 Florian Brucker 8 78 James Patterson 8 79 Philippe Debar 8 80 Chris Becker 8 81 Fidel viegas 8 82 Gail Shaw 8 83 Parasonic 8 84 Grimbert 8 85 Jepessen 8 86 Spock 8 87 Jakob Kosowski 7 88 Stephen McAvoy 7 89 Chuck Roberts 7 90 Daan Sprünken 7 91 Matthew Green 7 92 Ib Rasmussen 7 93 Mark Wagner 7 94 Tim McMurdo 7 95 Bill Brehm 7 96 Slashdolt 7 97 §FireFly§ 7 98 blessing 7 99 Sander 7 100 Simon 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.newusers Number of messages examined: 3,454 Total number of different subjects in this group: 662 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Anti-aliasing 55 2 random elements in blob object 24 3 Curving cylinders and cones? 23 4 Newbie syntax problem 23 5 Extreme Newbie, pixelization problem 22 6 Why left-handed coordinate system? 21 7 media ?s 21 8 Placing objects on a height field 20 9 Resolution of Outputed Image 20 10 text on a cylinder 20 11 Use of non "letter" true type fonts 19 12 Sharp edges to illumination 18 13 Scanline rendering? 18 14 Lightsetting for Lego Ferrari 17 15 Wrapping A Hieght Field Object Around an e 16 16 Something holding up the works... 16 17 Width of character 16 18 animation question 16 19 Stupid Question 16 20 max(0,min(1,x)) 16 21 Assigning different textures to triangles 15 22 How do you make a scene? 15 23 visible light rays ?? 15 24 vaxis_rotate 15 25 Can't get this mapped properly. 14 26 strings in #if-directive 14 27 how assumed_gamma works 14 28 height fields.... 14 29 Povray's Niche 14 30 Julia Fractals 14 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.newusers Number of messages examined: 3,454 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 551 15.95% Tuesday 519 15.03% Wednesday 510 14.77% Thursday 528 15.29% Friday 525 15.20% Saturday 341 9.87% Sunday 478 13.84% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.newusers Number of messages examined: 3,454 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 85 2.83 2.46% October 105 3.39 3.04% November 108 3.60 3.13% December 53 1.71 1.53% - * - 2001 - * - January 112 3.61 3.24% February 104 3.71 3.01% March 89 2.87 2.58% April 103 3.43 2.98% May 102 3.29 2.95% June 68 2.27 1.97% July 75 2.42 2.17% August 69 2.23 2.00% September 175 5.83 5.07% October 132 4.26 3.82% November 128 4.27 3.71% December 108 3.48 3.13% - * - 2002 - * - January 82 2.65 2.37% February 113 4.04 3.27% March 103 3.32 2.98% April 89 2.97 2.58% May 58 1.87 1.68% June 94 3.13 2.72% July 192 6.19 5.56% August 256 8.26 7.41% September 164 5.47 4.75% October 170 5.48 4.92% November 193 6.43 5.59% December 125 4.03 3.62% - * - 2003 - * - January 135 4.35 3.91% February 62 5.17 1.80% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.programming Number of messages examined: 2,387 Total number of different senders in this group: 274 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Thorsten Froehlich 288 2 Warp 206 3 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 198 4 Chris Huff 187 5 Christoph Hormann 86 6 Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce 84 7 Ron Parker 74 8 Vadim Sytnikov 61 9 Peter Popov 51 10 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj 46 11 Wu Yang 33 12 Vahur Krouverk 32 13 normdoering 30 14 Massimo Valentini 29 15 Slime 27 16 Ken 27 17 Mahalis 25 18 Rick [Kitty5] 23 19 Mark Wagner 23 20 Tony[B] 23 21 Le Forgeron 22 22 Apache 22 23 William F. Pokorny 20 24 Andrew Wilcox 19 25 Mael 19 26 Thomas Willhalm 16 27 Eugene Arenhaus 15 28 Philippe Lhoste 15 29 Geoff Wedig 15 30 Simon Lemieux 14 31 Nathan Kopp 14 32 George Pantazopoulos 13 33 John VanSickle 13 34 Alessandro Coppo 12 35 Maan M. Hamze 12 36 Micha Riser 11 37 Wolfgang Wieser 10 38 Thomas Lake 10 39 Anders K. 10 40 Thomas 10 41 Pabs 10 42 Nicolas Calimet 9 43 Edward Coffey 9 44 Pablo Viojo 9 45 Scott Hill 9 46 OpenMined **Mail Free America** 8 47 Johannes Dahlstrom 8 48 Tom Galvin tom[at]imp.org 7 49 Kari Kivisalo 7 50 Niki Estner 7 51 Disnel 7 52 ingo 7 53 JRG 7 54 RAY 7 55 Daniel Matthews 6 56 Jeff M. Thomas 6 57 Nigel Stewart 6 58 Grey Knight 6 59 Setepenaset 6 60 Roberto Ferrer de Amorim 5 61 Michael Andrews 5 62 Theo Gottwald * 5 63 Simon Adameit 5 64 Ben Chambers 5 65 Fidel viegas 5 66 Pete Goodwin 5 67 Fred Rathke 5 68 Luke Church 5 69 ahmet oktar 5 70 Alex 5 71 mike 5 72 Lutz Kretzschmar 4 73 Francois Dispot 4 74 Patrick Elliott 4 75 Peter J. Holzer 4 76 Paul Blaszczyk 4 77 Captain Tylor 4 78 Edmund Horner 4 79 Markus Becker 4 80 David McCabe 4 81 Chris Cason 4 82 Thierry B. 4 83 Tom Galvin 4 84 Ken Cecka 4 85 Grimbert 4 86 Lee Begg 4 87 Jurjen 4 88 PoD 4 89 pcb 4 90 Włodzimierz ABX Skiba 3 91 Erkki Søndergaard 3 92 Greg M. Johnson 3 93 Chris TRIBBECK 3 94 Evgeny Demidov 3 95 Thomas Charron 3 96 WhiteGandalf 3 97 Tom Dengler 3 98 Bob Hughes 3 99 Mark Weyer 3 100 TinCanMan 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.programming Number of messages examined: 2,387 Total number of different subjects in this group: 340 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Povray 4? wish list 250 2 Can someone patch POV so that you can outp 67 3 ATT: POV team and everyone - POV4 design p 66 4 cleaning source code from warnings trouble 53 5 Hackers... (Howto "not being hacked with p 44 6 United POV-Ray? 37 7 >1600 radiosity samples: right costheta di 34 8 this 34 9 language design (was hash marks) 33 10 Proposal for 4.0 core control 30 11 [RFC] Increasing Rendering Speed: Idea and 29 12 Object oriented POV scene language? 29 13 POV-Ray parser in Java 24 14 Attitude - A Suggestion for Future Discuss 23 15 A thought for 4.0 22 16 sphere memory 22 17 Beta-8? 22 18 Rendering Objects In gray scale 20 19 HF height: bug report 20 20 POV 4 and the STL. 20 21 POV-reg entries=? 20 22 POV team and everyone - POV4 design propos 19 23 About Intersection points 18 24 Python and POVRay 18 25 Function based distortions of non isosurfa 17 26 Adding a new object 17 27 complicated functions 16 28 64 bit or 32 bit? 15 29 Wave photons? 15 30 Smooth mesh 'bug' inverted normals (+Patch 14 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.programming Number of messages examined: 2,387 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 333 13.95% Tuesday 408 17.09% Wednesday 388 16.25% Thursday 453 18.98% Friday 378 15.84% Saturday 214 8.97% Sunday 210 8.80% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.programming Number of messages examined: 2,387 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 26 0.87 1.09% October 47 1.52 1.97% November 79 2.63 3.31% December 45 1.45 1.89% - * - 2001 - * - January 37 1.19 1.55% February 51 1.82 2.14% March 78 2.52 3.27% April 8 0.27 0.34% May 13 0.42 0.54% June 15 0.50 0.63% July 25 0.81 1.05% August 76 2.45 3.18% September 21 0.70 0.88% October 21 0.68 0.88% November 60 2.00 2.51% December 280 9.03 11.73% - * - 2002 - * - January 107 3.45 4.48% February 29 1.04 1.21% March 86 2.77 3.60% April 35 1.17 1.47% May 49 1.58 2.05% June 62 2.07 2.60% July 18 0.58 0.75% August 133 4.29 5.57% September 166 5.53 6.95% October 320 10.32 13.41% November 234 7.80 9.80% December 96 3.10 4.02% - * - 2003 - * - January 130 4.19 5.45% February 37 3.08 1.55% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.unix Number of messages examined: 1,715 Total number of different senders in this group: 243 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Warp 162 2 Steve 118 3 Thorsten Froehlich 60 4 Peter Popov 58 5 Fabien 52 6 Micha Riser 47 7 Mark Gordon 45 8 Adrien Beau 44 9 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 41 10 Fabien HENON 38 11 Christoph Hormann 37 12 Roz 36 13 Ron Parker 31 14 Mark M. Wilson 29 15 fabien Henon 28 16 Daniel Matthews 27 17 Felix Wiemann 20 18 Sebastian H. 20 19 Nicolas Calimet 19 20 Thomas Willhalm 19 21 Dennis Clarke 19 22 Chris Huff 19 23 Jaime Vives Piqueres 18 24 David F 16 25 Ken 16 26 Dawn McKnight 15 27 marabou 15 28 Peter 15 29 Rick [Kitty5] 14 30 Ken Cecka 14 31 Margus Ramst 13 32 Artis 13 33 OpenMined **Mail Free America** 12 34 Michael DiDonato 12 35 Francois Dispot 12 36 Peter Toneby 12 37 Fidel viegas 11 38 Sebastian Holtermann 10 39 Ole Laursen 10 40 ganymed 10 41 Wanderer On The Road 9 42 Alessandro Coppo 9 43 Peter J. Holzer 9 44 Lothar Esser 9 45 Doctor John 9 46 Spider 9 47 Jon A. Cruz 8 48 Le Forgeron 8 49 Rob Hoopman 8 50 Matt Giwer 7 51 Syed Imran 7 52 Grimbert 7 53 Szczyrba 7 54 Thomas 7 55 nelson sandalwood 6 56 Florian Pesth 6 57 Jan Dewerchin 6 58 Txemi Jendrix 6 59 Joshua Nye 6 60 Bonsai 6 61 Tilly 6 62 Anton Sherwood 5 63 Simon Lemieux 5 64 HENON fabien 5 65 Fran Firman 5 66 Ross Smith 5 67 Alan Kong 5 68 Mr. Art 5 69 october 5 70 CyrusW 5 71 cinder 5 72 Pabs 5 73 ingo 5 74 Hans-Detlev Fink 4 75 Elijah Sarver 4 76 Mark Wagner 4 77 Steve Oxley 4 78 Space Dude 4 79 Thierry B. 4 80 TigerHawk 4 81 D. Stark 4 82 Jellby 4 83 Safari 4 84 Chuck 4 85 Arnold the Aardvark 3 86 Christian Lavoie 3 87 Frank Nikolajsen 3 88 Difkvol hadani 3 89 Miguel A. Mota 3 90 Vahur Krouverk 3 91 David Burnett 3 92 Preacher Dave 3 93 gemelli david 3 94 Jason Alonso 3 95 Geoff Reidy 3 96 Rohan Hart 3 97 Augustus 3 98 Fritschy 3 99 earthdog 3 100 October 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.unix Number of messages examined: 1,715 Total number of different subjects in this group: 257 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Compiling 3.5 source for Solaris 5.8 / 8 39 2 Vim 6.0 in final beta [OT] 38 3 3.50c released (see caveats) 34 4 Emacs mode updated for 3.5 28 5 Pentium 3 optimized binary 28 6 Creating GIFs with Linux/Unix 27 7 Where IS pov 3.5 for *nix anyway? 25 8 VIM syntax highlighting and .inc files 24 9 Pyvon 0.95 - Pov-Ray editor for Linux 24 10 Why I still dualboot 24 11 What is the fuss about emacs ? 23 12 Linux GUI for POV 3.5? 23 13 povbench 23 14 Compiling 3.5 on IRIX 6.5 22 15 Linux version is slower than windows versi 21 16 Linux Editor 21 17 Compiling 3.5 source on Linux also fails 19 18 Another 3.5 speed issue? 19 19 POV editor for Linux 19 20 Slackware 8.0 19 21 I'm disappointed with speed of my sun comp 18 22 Some notes about Cygwin/MinGW compilation 18 23 library finding request 18 24 pov 4 sun 18 25 Multi-machine rendering... 17 26 POV-Ray speed under Linux 17 27 Linux Kernel 2.4.6 has been released. 16 28 white spots on *ALL* raytracers 16 29 Pyvon - Multilanguage 16 30 KPOVModeler 16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.unix Number of messages examined: 1,715 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 243 14.17% Tuesday 258 15.04% Wednesday 291 16.97% Thursday 347 20.23% Friday 247 14.40% Saturday 169 9.85% Sunday 157 9.15% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.unix Number of messages examined: 1,715 Number of months included: 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 2000 - * - September 45 1.50 2.62% October 31 1.00 1.81% November 33 1.10 1.92% December 27 0.87 1.57% - * - 2001 - * - January 18 0.58 1.05% February 16 0.57 0.93% March 4 0.13 0.23% April 54 1.80 3.15% May 64 2.06 3.73% June 45 1.50 2.62% July 74 2.39 4.31% August 53 1.71 3.09% September 37 1.23 2.16% October 6 0.19 0.35% November 42 1.40 2.45% December 40 1.29 2.33% - * - 2002 - * - January 60 1.94 3.50% February 19 0.68 1.11% March 56 1.81 3.27% April 39 1.30 2.27% May 37 1.19 2.16% June 79 2.63 4.61% July 119 3.84 6.94% August 341 11.00 19.88% September 85 2.83 4.96% October 48 1.55 2.80% November 118 3.93 6.88% December 50 1.61 2.92% - * - 2003 - * - January 68 2.19 3.97% February 4 0.33 0.23% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.binaries.utilities Number of messages examined: 1,083 Total number of different senders in this group: 261 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Ken 59 2 Dave Dunn 27 3 Christoph Hormann 26 4 Txemi Jendrix 25 5 Bob Hughes 24 6 John VanSickle 21 7 M. Berger 20 8 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 19 9 Nekar Xenos 19 10 Tony[B] 19 11 cadman 19 12 MikeH 17 13 Peter Popov 16 14 Bruce L 15 15 October 14 16 ingo 14 17 Marc-Hendrik Bremer 13 18 Jamie Davison 13 19 Rick [Kitty5] 12 20 david sharp 12 21 Andy Cocker 11 22 Jon A. Cruz 11 23 Loial Raven 11 24 Daniel Matthews 10 25 Ernest Poletaev 10 26 Mark Wagner 10 27 Francois Dispot 9 28 Vahur Krouverk 9 29 Harold Baize 9 30 Steven Jones 9 31 Mahalis 9 32 Fabien 9 33 Bruce 9 34 Wolfgang Thaller 8 35 David Wilkinson 8 36 Ian Burgmyer 8 37 Thomas Baier 8 38 Chris Huff 8 39 Eitan Tal 8 40 Gail Shaw 8 41 s1631001 8 42 Bugs74 8 43 Cliff Bowman 7 44 _Light_Beam_ 7 45 Halbert 7 46 marabou 7 47 Robert 7 48 mr.art 7 49 Sven-Erik Andersen 6 50 Mick Hazelgrove 6 51 Andrew Cocker 6 52 Robert Chaffe 6 53 Mark Hanford 6 54 Lieut_Data 6 55 KaosKidd 6 56 Steve G. 6 57 Christophe Bouffartigue 5 58 Peter Houston 5 59 Karl Pelzer 5 60 Simon Lacey 5 61 Dearmad 5 62 miyoken 5 63 FlyerX 5 64 Jerome 5 65 Gleb 5 66 dave 5 67 Francois Labreque 4 68 C.J. - POV User 4 69 Philippe Lhoste 4 70 Theo Gottwald * 4 71 Reuben Pearse 4 72 Daniel Prien 4 73 Andre nania 4 74 Pedro Bravo 4 75 Thomas Lake 4 76 TC DeVeau 4 77 blessing 4 78 Sander 4 79 janger 4 80 Dast 4 81 Dayv 4 82 MR 4 83 Dave Bates [{Norman}] 3 84 ryan constantine 3 85 Artemia Salina 3 86 Dennis Milller 3 87 Marc Schimmler 3 88 Timothy Farley 3 89 Dennis Borree 3 90 Dennis Miller 3 91 Simon Lemieux 3 92 Fabien HENON 3 93 James Taylor 3 94 Saadat Saeed 3 95 Samuel Benge 3 96 Matt Giwer 3 97 Alan Kong 3 98 Lee Brown 3 99 Psychomek 3 100 TinCanMan 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S U B J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: povray.binaries.utilities Number of messages examined: 1,083 Total number of different subjects in this group: 310 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Subject Line: Number of posts in thread: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 ATT. strata 3d is free 37 2 Rebuilt pose2pov 21 3 ANNOUNCE: "VOP" - POV-Ray Previewer using 20 4 Cloth simulator v. 0.1.0 20 5 Triangles 19 6 3D Canvas modeller *free* 16 7 Height Field utility 15 8 POV Texture Editor 15 9 hamapatch point selection 14 10 POV-Ray Color picker 14 11 POVGUI 14 12 Cloth simulator version 0.3.0 12 13 Spline editor... 12 14 Perl script for batch renders - render.zip 11 15 Newcomer to POV with questions 11 16 Cloth simulator version 0.2.0 11 17 Build human face from picture 10 18 Checkers of textures 10 19 Preview - new converter: POV-SDL to HTML ( 9 20 Search for utility 9 21 eps to prism 9 22 POVGUI 1.5 9 23 Pyvon latest release and near final versio 8 24 interested in terrain? 8 25 Clothsim problem 8 26 Free 3D Modeller 8 27 Blobman v4.2 8 28 POV-Ray 3.5 makefile for Inprise (Borland) 7 29 PoseRay 1.1.2.33 Poser OBJ->POV-Ray/Moray 7 30 Hamapatch zip file 147Kbu - eng_hamapatch2 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A Y L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.binaries.utilities Number of messages examined: 1,083 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day: Posts: Percentage of total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday 161 14.87% Tuesday 143 13.20% Wednesday 200 18.47% Thursday 156 14.40% Friday 192 17.73% Saturday 136 12.56% Sunday 94 8.68% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M O N T H L Y P O S T I N G S Group interrogated: povray.binaries.utilities Number of messages examined: 1,083 Number of months included: 40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Month/Year: Posts: Daily average: Percentage of group total: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * - 1999 - * - November 8 0.27 0.74% December 25 0.81 2.31% - * - 2000 - * - January 14 0.45 1.29% February 78 2.69 7.20% March 27 0.87 2.49% April 28 0.93 2.59% May 52 1.68 4.80% June 44 1.47 4.06% July 45 1.45 4.16% August 25 0.81 2.31% September 25 0.83 2.31% October 21 0.68 1.94% November 22 0.73 2.03% December 10 0.32 0.92% - * - 2001 - * - January 47 1.52 4.34% February 65 2.32 6.00% March 42 1.35 3.88% April 30 1.00 2.77% May 4 0.13 0.37% June 6 0.20 0.55% July 8 0.26 0.74% August 37 1.19 3.42% September 38 1.27 3.51% October 39 1.26 3.60% November 35 1.17 3.23% December 9 0.29 0.83% - * - 2002 - * - January 14 0.45 1.29% February 7 0.25 0.65% March 34 1.10 3.14% April 30 1.00 2.77% May 34 1.10 3.14% June 29 0.97 2.68% July 46 1.48 4.25% August 35 1.13 3.23% September 13 0.43 1.20% October 28 0.90 2.59% November 11 0.37 1.02% December 6 0.19 0.55% - * - 2003 - * - January 9 0.29 0.83% February 2 0.17 0.18% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S E N D E R I N F O R M A T I O N Group interrogated: irtc.stills Number of messages examined: 1,037 Total number of different senders in this group: 160 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rank: Sender: Number of posts: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Tom Melly 112 2 Shay 44 3 Txemi Jendrix 37 4 Ken 34 5 25ct 33 6 Warp 32 7 Francois Labreque 30 8 Adrien Beau 27 9 Lance Birch - 26 10 Bob Franke 23 11 Geoff Wedig 22 12 Fabien Mosen 21 13 Tek 21 14 Tim Nikias 19 15 J Charter 19 16 Ben Chambers 17 17 Mark Wagner 16 18 Doctor John 15 19 Dearmad 14 20 Jaime Vives Piqueres 13 21 Norbert Kern 13 22 David 13 23 Christoph Hormann 12 24 Jim Charter 11 25 Steve 11 26 The Mad Hatter 10 27 Josh English 10 28 Slashdolt 10 29 Rune 10 30 Greg M. Johnson 9 31 gonzo 9 32 JRG 9 33 Leroy Whetstone 8 34 Marc Jacquier 8 35 Chris Becker 8 36 Simon de Vet 8 37 Gilles Tran 8 38 Nathan Kopp 7 39 Peter Popov 7 40 Gail Shaw 7 41 ZenPsycho 7 42 Chris S. 7 43 Zero 7 44 Marjorie Graterol 6 45 John Robinson 6 46 Ron Parker 6 47 Scott Hill 6 48 Batronyx 6 49 Thomas Charron 5 50 Ian Shumsky 5 51 Jason Scott 5 52 Phil Clute 5 53 Renderdog 5 54 Wolfox 5 55 simian 5 56 Ruy 5 57 W³odzimierz ABX Skiba 4 58 Kzerphii Toomk 4 59 Matt Beighton 4 60 Rick [Kitty5] 4 61 Nekar Xenos 4 62 Ian Witham 4 63 Tina S. 4 64 ingo 4 65 3 66 Philippe.JACQUEROUX 3 67 Corey Woodworth 3 68 Edward Leibnitz 3 69 Mick Hazelgrove 3 70 Tekno Frannansa 3 71 Aaron Gillies 3 72 Sander Stols 3 73 Jaime Vives 3 74 Matt Giwer 3 75 TinCanMan 3 76 fabien 3 77 Jerry 3 78 Slime 3 79 Tina 3 80 jkb 3 81 bruce@pingouin.rez-gif.supelec.fr 2 82 Fernando Gonzalez del