Quote - in case the notes don't list source, do we contact you, e.g. for source of bat file?

It depends if I have time, the phase of the moon, and whether there's a Dick van Dyke rerun I want to catch. :)

Seriously, the indexes are being provided as is without any warranties or guarantees. I'm not providing them to be inundated with requests of where to find items. It takes time to dig up a disk, find the item, scour through the readme for the contact info and reply.

Having the index makes it a little easier for people to find stuff because they have a filename that they can search for. I've had to do searches on filenames to try to find a good copy of a file that didn't download correctly. Every now and then, a file downloads "completely" without errors, but didn't download fully and I'm stuck with a bad zip. I search here, on Google, at ShareCG, and a few other sites to try to redownload the file. It would be nice if most people made the same efforts to find files before posting requests. We've all seen requests for items that can be found by simply querying freestuff here. At least a request can now be posted here with a thumbnail and a filename, making it a lot easier for others to help. After all, an older item probably has stale contact information and others here may still know how to find the person who created the item.

My rough rules of thumb, to decide whether to help somebody find an item, depends on my available time (which I usually don't have much of), whether the requesting person has made any effort to find the file, and whether the person has helped others with problems in this forum. If somebody posts that they're looking for a sword, I'm not even going to open the message. There are a gazillion free swords here and all over the net. Somebody who can't find a sword hasn't done a single search and expects others to waste their time doing their work for them. I'll usually help people that I know have been very helpful in this forum or provided freebies. I'm more willing to spend time helping them than somebody I don't recognize.

For people like you, that have been collecting Poser content even longer than me, having a filename makes it easy to find something on your disks. Being able to scroll through categories of thumbnails makes it easier to find something for an image or to simply be inspired by something buried away on a forgotten disk. That's how I use the index for my own work.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon