Thomas_M wrote:
> There are very few, if any, Perl resources as good as this
> list. That's why there are a lot of unix users subscribed.
> The clpm newsgroup just isn't as good as it used to be.
This is partially because it attracted a fair number of (fairly) clueless
newbies who asked the same FAQs day in, day out, or who wanted the
documentation to be read to them. This annoyed the "wizards" quite a bit,
having to see the same questions month after month, and little (if any)
effort to find an answer by (a) trying it out, (b) reading the documentation
(especially perlfaq*), or (c) grepping the newsgroup archive (e.g. via
DejaNews).
Furthermore, many of these FAQs garnered well-meaning, but wrong, responses,
and many of the "wizards" felt it their duty to point out the wrong answers
so that newbies wouldn't be misled (including people with half a clue who
might search the archive before posting and finding a wrong answer) -- which
added even more to their workload.
I believe comp.lang.perl.moderated was created to produce a place with a
higher signal-to-noise ratio than c.l.p.misc.
Cheers,
Philip
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