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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2002/04/09 17:16:05 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/04/26 16:56:35 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -183,10 +183,17 @@ following groups:
 
     comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi         Writing CGI scripts for the Web.
 
-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/ .
+There is also a Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at
+nntp://nntp.perl.org , a web interface to the same lists at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/ and these lists are also available under the
+C<perl.*> hierarchy at http://groups.google.com . Other groups are listed at
+http://lists.perl.org/ ( also known as http://lists.cpan.org/ ).
+
+A nice place to ask questions is the PerlMonks site, http://www.perlmonks.org/
+
+Note that none of the above are supposed to write your code for you:
+asking questions about particular problems or general advice is fine,
+but asking someone to write your code for free is not very cool.
 
 =head2 Where should I post source code?
 
@@ -278,12 +285,12 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
 
     Perl 5 Pocket Reference
-        by Johan Vromans
+    by Johan Vromans
        ISBN 0-596-00032-4 [3rd edition May 2000]
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr3/
 
     Perl in a Nutshell
-        by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
+    by Ellen Siever, Stephan Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan
        ISBN 1-56592-286-7 [1st edition December 1998]
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut/
 
@@ -291,7 +298,7 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
 
     Elements of Programming with Perl
        by Andrew L. Johnson
-       ISBN 1884777805 [1st edition October 1999]
+       ISBN 1-884777-80-5 [1st edition October 1999]
        http://www.manning.com/Johnson/
 
     Learning Perl
@@ -308,8 +315,8 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
     Perl: The Programmer's Companion
        by Nigel Chapman
        ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
-        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
-        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
+    http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+    http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
 
     Cross-Platform Perl
        by Eric Foster-Johnson
@@ -351,24 +358,24 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
     Object Oriented Perl
        Damian Conway
            with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
-       ISBN 1884777791 [1st edition August 1999]
+       ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
        http://www.manning.com/Conway/
 
     Data Munging with Perl
-        Dave Cross
-        ISBN 1930110006 [1st edition 2001]
-        http://www.manning.com/cross
+       Dave Cross
+       ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
+       http://www.manning.com/cross
 
-    Learning Perl/Tk
-        by Nancy Walsh
-       ISBN 1-56592-314-6 [1st edition January 1999]
-       http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/
+       Mastering Perl/Tk
+       by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
+       ISBN 1-56592-716-8 [1st edition January 2002]
+       http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/
 
 =back
 
 =head2 Perl in Magazines
 
-The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
+The first (and for a long time, only) periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
 I<The Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
 announcements, contests, and much more.  I<TPJ> has columns on web
 development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
@@ -379,7 +386,7 @@ magazine ( http://www.sysadminmag.com/ ) For more details on TPJ,
 see http://www.tpj.com/
 
 Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry quality articles on
-Perl are I<Web Techniques> ( http://www.webtechniques.com/ ),
+Perl are I<The Perl Review> ( http://www.theperlreview.com ),
 I<Unix Review> ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ),
 I<Linux Magazine> ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ),
 and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>
@@ -419,8 +426,12 @@ Most of the major modules (Tk, CGI, libwww-perl) have their own
 mailing lists.  Consult the documentation that came with the module for
 subscription information.
 
+A comprehensive list of Perl related mailing lists can be found at:
+
        http://lists.cpan.org/
 
+( also visible as http://lists.perl.org/ )
+
 =head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
 
 The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup