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 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2002/01/25 21:22:22 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from
 commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web
 walking and CGI scripts.  The master web site for CPAN is
 http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
+http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
 via DNS.  See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the
 end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/
 has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ miscellaneous modules.
 See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or
 http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category.
 
+CPAN is not affiliated with O'Reilly and Associates.
 
 =head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
 
@@ -184,7 +185,8 @@ following groups:
 
 There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack
 Perl development team (perl5-porters) at
-news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ .
+nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters .
 
 =head2 Where should I post source code?
 
@@ -195,9 +197,9 @@ including setting the Followup-To header line to NOT include alt.sources;
 see their FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/) for details.
 
 If you're just looking for software, first use Google
-(http://www.google.com), Deja (http://www.deja.com), and
-CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org).  This is faster and more
-productive than just posting a request.
+(http://www.google.com), Google's usenet search interface
+(http://groups.google.com),  and CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org).  
+This is faster and more productive than just posting a request.
 
 =head2 Perl Books
 
@@ -440,7 +442,7 @@ in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large
 user community and an extensive literature.  The comp.lang.perl.*
 newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your
 questions in near real-time.  Perl has traditionally been supported by
-Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriads of
+Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad
 programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life
 better for everyone.
 
@@ -493,7 +495,7 @@ bugs.
 
 Read the perlbug(1) man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information.
 
-=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
+=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
 
 The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by
 The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
@@ -516,9 +518,12 @@ and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as
     http://bugs.perl.org/
     http://history.perl.org/
     http://lists.perl.org/
-    http://news.perl.org/
     http://use.perl.org/
 
+http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network,
+a replicated worlwide repository of Perl software, see
+the I<What is CPAN?> question earlier in this document.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
 
 Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.