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 =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: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/02/08 22:31:57 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -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?
 
@@ -182,9 +183,10 @@ following groups:
 
     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 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?
 
@@ -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
 
@@ -425,7 +427,7 @@ subscription information.
 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
@@ -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.