=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
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/ and the Deja archive at
-http://www.deja.com/ using the perl.porters-gw newsgroup, or you can
-subscribe to the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request@perl.org
-a subscription request.
+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/
+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).
While the GNU project includes Perl in its distributions, there's no
such thing as "GNU Perl". Perl is not produced nor maintained by the
These are the "just another perl hacker" signatures that some people
sign their postings with. Randal Schwartz made these famous. About
100 of the earlier ones are available from
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh .
+http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh .
=head2 Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
Over a hundred quips by Larry, from postings of his or source code,
-can be found at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
+can be found at http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
=head2 How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
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