Ragman, As a SysOp for Compuserve for ages and ages, let me tell you that a forum which concentrates upon one thing only becomes boring, boring, boring and it dies of attrition. There were 3-4 places there where people could discuss Magic: the Gathering. There were also players who only wanted rules discussions... no playing of games, no trading, and certainly no conversation about anything other than Magic. Mention your cat and they'd throw a hissyfit if not a virtual hairball. :pffft: The forum which died first was the most restrictive. The forum which allowed trading and had an open league for playing the game as well as conversation about rules and anything else which we wanted to discuss (cats, chocolate, opera, the space program, and electronic toys?) has had to move under a couple of different wizops as CIS shut down the smaller forums, but I've kept my Fire-Breathing Black Sheep together since 1994. We are still playing Magic online via the message boards, still trading, and still talking about whatever pleases us. We also meet ftf in Ohio every year. We are friends in a friendly place. If we'd only discussed one narrow topic, we'd never have known each other as people. So you are only interested in Poser techniques? I'd suggest that you get a manual and Mortimer Shamm's how-to book. There's a FAQ and a backroom with answers, too. If you want to be part of a community, you need to accept the fact that we are all human, full of human quirks, and showing off a work we just finished, or offering a gift, or talking about the vagueries of the hardware, or even complaining about the weather are all part and parcel of what makes us human. If this forum limited itself to technical information, it would be... boring, boring, boring. And we wouldn't want that, would we? Carolly