perldoc spacing oddity

[Ronald Fischer]

I have in the documentation section of my module:

###############################################################
=head1 CLASS METHODS

=over 4

=item B<new> - CONSTRUCTOR

$obj = new TelnetCli([$timeout]);

This creates a new TelnetCli object......
###############################################################

When I display this using perldoc, the output looks like this:

###############################################################
CLASS METHODS
new - CONSTRUCTOR
$obj = new TelnetCli([$timeout]);

This creates a new TelnetCli object....
###############################################################

Note that there are no empty lines before and after the =item line.
This surprises me, because when I look at some modules in the
Perl distribution, how the PODs are defined there, I see that
they do it exactly as I do, but they do have empty lines around
the item lines.

Is someone able to spot what I am doing wrong here?

Ronald