Rich Bowen wrote:
> A comment just made on the Advocacy list just got me thinking. Seems
> that it would be nice to have a collection of Anti-Matt scripts -
> Well-written alternatives to Matt Wright's programs that will
> gracelessly die on January 1, 19100. I have an alternative to wwwboard,
> and I'm sure that most of us have something that serves the same purpose
> as formmail.pl, except that it will work next month.
>
> The discussion board thing is a tarball, and so won't work in the
> Scripts section just yet. But it would be very nice to have some of the
> other things, so that when we see people using Matt's code, we have
> something else to point them towards.
>
> We've been making fun of Matt's code for several years now, but the fact
> is that there is no nice convenient place to go for alternatives. And
> whether or not we think that guestbooks and counters are useful things
> to have, the fact is that a lot of people out there want them, and Matt
> Wright is providing them.
>
> It would indeed be a good service to the unwashed masses of Perl users
> (note, not Perl programers, but Perl users) out there, if when we say
> "never use anything by Matt", we could say "instead, use the stuff in
> the Scripts/CGI section of CPAN.
>
> Thoughts? I'm going to start looking through some stuff I have laying
> around and see if I can scrape together some stuff to upload. Does
> anyone else think that this is a good idea?
Oooh. I like this. I'm going to have to look into my bag, to see what I
can put out as well. Since this is a script collection, it would be the
best place for it, and I _do_ like the idea of having someplace to point
the requestors to...
-JEV
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