To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
-current addresses (as of August 2000):
+current addresses (as of September 2000):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
-
NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
happened in; and the affected files. The file lists have a short symbolic
+> branched (from elsewhere)
!> merged changes (from elsewhere)
+The Message-Ids in the change entries refer to the email messages sent
+to the perl5-porters mailing list. You can retrieve the messages for
+example from http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
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