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From: john@ontek.com (John Alan Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl-Users Digest #552, "COPS in perl", newsgroup use
Summary: All is well
Message-ID: <1659@ontek.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 19:13:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.015034.13077@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1991Jan9.015034.13077@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> eichin@athena.mit.edu writes:
}	1) Is *anybody* other than Mr. Bernstein upset with the
}plethora of examples of perl code that appear in comp.lang.perl? 

I, for one, would be upset if the code postings stopped appearing here.
They are not large enough yet to adversely affect the readability of the
group, and are on the whole quite useful.

}	2) I see this as the Perl-Users mailing list, with similar
}semantics to TeXHaX. Perhaps there's some confusion about the use of a
}newsgroup? 

Yes, this should be a place to talk about perl, to share neat pieces of
code, and to discuss how perl is most effectively used.  Since the newsgroup
name space is essentially a way for people to find things they are interested
in reading, and is only intended to be a loose categorization rather than
an exhaustive cataloging, the question is whether the postings which are not
strictly about perl syntax and semantics are of sufficient volume to warrant
directing them to another group.  At this point in time, I feel that the 
answer is no, as the number of articles per day has rarely execeeded 20, and
this sort of volume should be easy to filter.

JAS
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