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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: COPS in perl?
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Date: 9 Jan 91 23:34:38 GMT
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In article <11230@cae780.csi.com> muir@cae780.csi.com (David Muir Sharnoff) writes:
> Comp.lang.perl is the "Perl Users Group".

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying before! I really do think that
``The Perl Users Group'' would be a much, much better name than
``comp.lang.perl'' to attract new people to the Perl community, and to
describe the sort of discussions that go on within that community. The
problem is that setting up a users group demands time and energy. I
think Tom is the obvious choice for organizer, though of course he may
not realize how much effort he's already putting in.

Someday it may be useful to create comp.lang.perl, a newsgroup for
discussions of Perl as a language. But the point of my article was that
what I see here is a users group, and that this group should be given a
more appropriate name and made into the organization people want.

---Dan