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 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2001/09/20 03:03:00 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2002/01/27 20:22:52 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -35,8 +35,12 @@ for Perl's milestone releases.
 In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters)
 are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
 producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
-money.  You may snoop on pending developments via
-nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/
+money.  You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at
+http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ 
+and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/ 
+or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or
+its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters ,
+or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq,
 or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
 perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request
 (an empty message with no subject is fine).
@@ -92,15 +96,16 @@ See L<perlhist> for a history of Perl revisions.
 At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall            
 announced Perl6 development would begin in earnest. Perl6 was an oft
 used term for Chip Salzenberg's project to rewrite Perl in C++ named
-Topaz. However, Topaz should not be confused with the nisus to rewrite
-Perl while keeping the lessons learned from other software, as well as
-Perl5, in mind.
+Topaz. However, Topaz provided valuable insights to the next version
+of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately abandoned.   
 
-If you have a desire to help in the crusade to make Perl a better place
-then peruse the Perl6 developers page at http://www.perl.org/perl6/ and 
-get involved.
+If you want to learn more about Perl6, or have a desire to help in 
+the crusade to make Perl a better place then peruse the Perl6 developers 
+page at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ and get involved.
 
-The first alpha release is expected by Summer 2001.
+Perl6 is not scheduled for release yet, and Perl5 will still be supported
+for quite awhile after its release. Do not wait for Perl6 to do whatever
+you need to do.
 
 "We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing."
 --Larry Wall