=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/03/09 21:01:13 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web.
-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/ .
+There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at
+nntp://nntp.perl.org, or a web interface to the same lists at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/. Other groups are listed at
+http://lists.perl.org.
=head2 Where should I post source code?
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
The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup
content.
-http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc
+http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.perl.misc
If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the
same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience
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,